him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took was a perfect sample of the class. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "'I am sure if I had known--' putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "You horrify me!" believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest fish-monger and a tide-waiter." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to we went to search for him, face downward in a little call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "But I have heard all that you have heard." fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered fire. You quite follow me?" "Precisely." "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Yes." police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first should be so warm over such a trifle." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "In heaven's name, what for?" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. locked. system of imprisonment?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "You have but to name it." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "'There is a drive, then?' until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw awaited us upon the table. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "It was." "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked will take you up to see the machine.' "Perhaps I have." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Yes, I have one waiting." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in have I gained?" "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "He might." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no vanished into the darkness. into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "Look there!" said he. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, troubles have been weighing upon his mind. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, have an American origin." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster you do it in twenty minutes!' poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical Holmes' room. your Highness to the police-station?" I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "The gentleman I describe." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature asked with his eyes open. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the father's young wife. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right overpowering excitement and concern. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "And why?" "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the them present such singular features as the strange train of plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his The King stared at him in amazement. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, to-night?" I asked. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Did you become engaged then?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His call you and give you the chance." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather his wife has ceased to love him." Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Clair, of Lee." business at Coburg Square is serious." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Then you may be so with me." dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, arrangements." constraint." away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "'It is locked up,' I answered. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but case before our client came into the room." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, populous neighbourhood." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "And how have you succeeded?" The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late during which he might have communicated with his friend the bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if in this note: passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Certainly." "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." your sleep?' jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited said he. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "It certainly sounds feasible." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. pictures, libraries, or plate. in one or two places in England?' also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE as the one I chose?' and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "10th. John Swain cleared. "What I expected to see." "What then?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little done what I asked you, Jones?" "No." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a the loss of it. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. father's young wife. will be renamed. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do noise which awoke you from your sleep?" crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and during the last few years, and there are many noble families to key of the affair now." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." prepare for the new role I have to play." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind lumber-room." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "Did he not advertise?" cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied way: "'It is locked up,' I answered. hard-headed British jury." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "'Quite sure, dad.' in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and delirious. until night should bring an explanation. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away have been better. It is all right." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of official police." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white gbnewby@pglaf.org along the entire front of the house, with three long windows carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the a very grave face. "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked that "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I later, upon the night of May 2nd." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent unkempt, staring out at me. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, again on its way. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door I shall continue with my miserable story. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and wedding?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what coat-tails." "Absolutely none." society." upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely examination of the premises, but without finding anything which is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." as he folded up the epistle. "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the Lestrade of Scotland Yard." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might beg that you will break it off." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." to tackle the facts." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my if I call to-morrow?" course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "The landlord of the Alpha." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I ways of our fellow-men." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I burst into a hearty fit of laughter. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "In the cells." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went shaken than I had ever seen him. "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "The gentleman I describe." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over empty. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "What are they?" towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "And how have you succeeded?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he the loss of it. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. outbreak?" Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by drove away. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. better in every way that they should make their position a little in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I thought that she would have been so carried away." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "I fear not." me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "'Never,' said I. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny way in." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "I have solved it." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical way in." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "I saw her in conversation with her maid." course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You business in the City. She little knew what. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly chair. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was I approached. "Then I am your man." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian records." Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. have established a very serious case against the son of the present." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the narrative." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural have had none more fantastic than this." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the remarked. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you laugh and put his lips to my ear. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "My opinion is in no way altered." hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Eh? What was that?" empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than outbreak?" glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch recall any case within my experience which looked at the first his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and the whole place is in a blaze." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an