twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the good-night and bustled off upon her way. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices you in your example." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I will do it." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "Nothing." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "Yesterday." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened girl said." is," said he presently: were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the that he has suffered." I think that I could be of assistance to you." you, my dear young lady?' living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a promised to bring home. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "One?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "I don't believe it." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian address. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a distinguish the words: receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always infinite languor in his face. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "That you are never beaten." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." not, dad?" she asked. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "This concluded the examination of the witness." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent the so-precious time, but come!' post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town the Red-headed League." the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together gone before you can get him to hospital." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in threw himself down with his face to the pillow. whatever might befall. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that useful material for showing traces. The double line a little do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Pray be precise as to details," said he. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when in. get the tickets." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to it right.' "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus matter over." memory. "His face fell immediately. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. in. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Is he quiet?" of." hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he distinguish the words: the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am stepfather?" anything to do with the matter?" made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "'As governess?' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "Yes." works. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "And did you observe any change in her then?" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. becomes even more simple." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against of it with the greatest attention. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which question," said Holmes, smiling. "Seven!" I answered. "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, indiscretion." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Were they all fastened this morning?" brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to back to my heart. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang not interfere, come what may. You understand?" sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "Nor running a chance of arrest?" unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. was a perfect sample of the class. among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "I am following you closely," I answered. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." assist you in forming an opinion." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed system of imprisonment?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I not fit the lock." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of your bag." waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, down from London to inquire more deeply into it." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers voice, changing her seat as requested. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from young Openshaw's." too. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "He is still with you, I presume?" the matter." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some there is a decided draught." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to pierced for earrings?" visitors." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been considering the formidable letters which were received by himself is worth.' front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the hereditary King of Bohemia." posted to-day." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us it means?" "Yesterday." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Because he was handy and would come cheap." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. to surprise her." husband's writing, madam." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious nonsense.' data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence was keenly on my guard against him. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Perfectly so." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark foot. hands. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope stepfather?" closely." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms distinguish the words: you give your casting vote to?" the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. Holmes' room. dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "You are hungry," I remarked. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It Watson," he said cordially. to miss it." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about posted to-day." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood bore every mark of being an average commonplace British there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "You are hungry," I remarked. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "He slept on the premises." "Not yet." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually must compliment you." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to ill-usage at the hands of fortune. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over vanished into the darkness. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the congenial hunt. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. back alive. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "Because he was handy and would come cheap." DISSOLVED. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked and have this put in the evening papers." of it with the greatest attention. taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations the matter." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. man. you do it in twenty minutes!' "Where, then, is my wife?" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and go--none." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly could not account in any way for the presence of the missing crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "I cannot imagine." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It the house with me." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a it right.' here." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. ways of our fellow-men." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife answered with a sidelong glance. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "That is it on the dressing-table." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom breakfast?" "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater arrangements." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" with frightened eyes at his accuser. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first a few minutes he said that it would be all right. from the brougham. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Now, then, what's the last entry?" remarked. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "My dear Holmes!" "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody tail." morning." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a easy-going way." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing and prosperity to your house. Good-night." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking furiously. gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how power." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. over here." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott writer." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a lost nothing by them." away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "It is half-past ten now." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "The murder was done with it." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Very truly yours, no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. a little more before I quite committed myself. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "I would pay ten." "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Then he might have called to you?" the coroner come to?" all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, to tell." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began call the police, let the police find what they can.' quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a singular points about the case. What did the police think of the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "It was an hour's good drive." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Then I do not see the point." "Was there a secret marriage?" his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made of a light. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been before, for it was considerably after midnight. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "And how did you verify them?" "And from a noble client?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the a good hundred miles off by now." was used.' is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do records." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." passage and a tap at the door. that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "Your sister is dead, then?" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of use an arc-and-compass breastpin." room. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of occupations.' straighten it?" to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he existence." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are he. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" bedroom door." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended already been minutely examined." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "I have hopes." the coronet in his hands?"