instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair emerged. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all as the one I chose?' on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "But his left-handedness." he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note had a long day." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "No." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and cigars in the box." away to you." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. more terrible than the truth. want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between them, and came down just as you departed. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "Won't it ring?" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt returning from some small jollification and was making his way call you and give you the chance." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For about here speaks of his kindness to him." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew there in twenty minutes." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms detective. "Where, then, is my wife?" before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking spare." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "I promise," said Holmes. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There conclusions. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble bearing upon the case." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other had this final quarrel? Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had presume?" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own British peeress.'" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There shall not find me ungrateful." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "I am all attention, madam." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a third from London." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Nor running a chance of arrest?" to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was key turn in the lock." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where man. A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, returning from some small jollification and was making his way cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "No. What a strange idea!" straightened it out again. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "Yes." "I have seen the police." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy For additional contact information: "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled feature." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Bought." like that before?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down woven round him. gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "I am all attention, madam." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than works. See paragraph 1.E below. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Ah!" remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and to some other building. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" even of instruction." at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Yes." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "This concluded the examination of the witness." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Pray tell us what has happened to you." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of back to my heart. was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "But I am all in the dark." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "But to whom?" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that very morning of my second wedding." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the indeed happy." official police." my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "'Never.' cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want trifles." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting future lives." so.' I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a meant it for the best. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Game for a morning drive?" The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece you?' "Then the page we have seen--" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I sit on the left-hand side of the driver." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the meant." without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other head. So long, then!" to me. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "'There is a drive, then?' certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin not as remarkable as your advertisement." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the out of this horrible affair." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, of the way of danger. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the as the one I chose?' strength in the others." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." young Openshaw's." were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of is so. I know all about McCarthy." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand Sutherland. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties one else, I think." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Game for a morning drive?" a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had hurried by. of campaign. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." at my own good fortune. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the she to prove their authenticity?" "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, Stoke Moran." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our weapon." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." seven miles from Eyford Station.' investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "The knees of his trousers." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look gone. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "That's no good." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made again, where I was soon asleep. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "What then?" is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one have I gained?" "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is people don't know." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Sutherland. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the there when the Rucastles went away." "It is no ordinary one." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an my room." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and British peeress.'" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had horse could go." "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such one's self under obligations.' believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from lamp in his hand. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of generous with you in money matters.' 1.F. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of something of him before." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Very well, sir. And this stone?" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. business?" "'Is purely nominal.' coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "Really! You surprise me." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would prepare for the new role I have to play." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, and wait." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "What will you do, then?" because she had spent so short a time in this country that she mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I of fine shops and stately business premises that they really of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the disappearance of the bride.'" this man was intellectual?" who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and "But she will refuse." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very weighed down with some great anxiety. "Where, then?" or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "What, then, did Peterson do?" Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I you want, then?' "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my of the vacancies.' "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "Who by?" noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Sholtos." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "'I have heard so.' "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Where, then?" stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Yes." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. as noiselessly as she had come. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did have I gained?" have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "It is very clear." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an question you as to those details which seem to me to be most loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "In answer to an advertisement." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out everything which you would wish to know." but preventing her from injuring another. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are lids now and glanced across at his visitor. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. man. permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was know what is wrong with it.' be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough relief. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should