thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he was shining brightly. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "I was certainly surprised to find you there." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "'Entirely.' 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will bachelor.' "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "I will try. What is it?" qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot since then to throw any light upon what became of him." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'Certainly,' I answered. "Certainly." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. III. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was where she found matters as described by the last witness. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I will be renamed. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Who was the criminal, then?" "Yes, all." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The your bag." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs hardly wander." "You don't mind breaking the law?" "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling posted to-day." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded danger is over." wall." you give your casting vote to?" this remarkable episode. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Never." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The most interesting one." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil investigation." Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but which our visitor detailed to us. mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "'About the same.' Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just breakfast?" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in entirely lost his self-respect." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties has little to do with my story." walking." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid remarked. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Precisely so. But how--" awaited us upon the table. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, as yours." the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "No. His orders were to stay in the house." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in over his head with a sweet womanly caress. set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave the inquest, and which are worth considering." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must all that?" Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "You horrify me!" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her your own bird, so if you wish--" (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his time." I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Where, indeed?" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers of campaign. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "Texas, I think." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite the best of training." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "And how have you succeeded?" without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, British peeress.'" prison!" shall use the carriage to-night." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely do you make of it all?" stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Did your wife hear all this?" arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Yes, at the mines." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out to his chemical studies. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you tail." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "His face fell immediately. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard observed. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case second window is the one that I jumped from." "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here was a lad." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm lost nothing by them." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "You saw the ventilator, too?" one of the states of the Union." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about the coroner come to?" the window, rose as we entered. little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out round with crates and massive boxes. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." girl said." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Nothing?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know nothing with him." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land this man was intellectual?" deduce something from that?" "Not in the least." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were fasten all the windows?" he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official man. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation this remarkable episode. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "No, my brougham is waiting." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such of this gang." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "Yes, there are nearly always some there." DAMAGE. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "No good news?" save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. tell him that I know him to be innocent." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right south, for the country is more deserted there." derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "Well." do." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just in my life." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared like that before?" business in the City. She little knew what. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever conclusions. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' cheerful." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "Seven!" I answered. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "What will you do, then?" downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on Surrey." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Your French gold?" Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to kind enough to tell me what I should do." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. and all of them with the keenest interest. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. against a man in the prime of life?" steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Literary Archive Foundation "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then it." digesting their breakfasts at home." stood on the top of it. that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a bears upon the case?" her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "'What do you call purely nominal?' telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, allusion to a rat. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, I held the little printed slip to the light. not personally threatened." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "I was afraid that you were engaged." assist you in forming an opinion." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "I was sure that I might rely on you." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "Did he not advertise?" it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I hour." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "And leave your case unfinished?" making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Very murderous indeed." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I danger is over." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "But he might be a bachelor." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the to take care of herself." then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on telegram would bring me down to your help." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "You were travelling in the States?" might have a private word with us. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in kind enough to tell me what I should do." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It breakfast?" "May I see it?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had crackling voice. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "I shall most certainly do so." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that really the only notable feature about the thing." foresight and the moral retrogression?" the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." jewels which you have stolen?' I. granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of man. "It is a murder, then?" run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought death." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would yourselves in at night?" "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with go--none." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a round and wave him away like that.' Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I