Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Entirely." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much ways of our fellow-men." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but in this note: neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Of what?" Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "It was an hour's good drive." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock the best of training." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle laugh and put his lips to my ear. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "So it appears." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: becomes even more simple." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he a suggestive one." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "How did that help you?" some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue young Openshaw's." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah his face which made him a very different person to the round, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "No more words. Get out!" Farm upon the left." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an weighed down with some great anxiety. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Gutenberg-tm License. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with have established a very serious case against the son of the As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him singular points about the case. What did the police think of the dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still will find little credit to be gained out of this case." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied this unhappy family?" up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning my room." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "No." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "You have but to name it." girl said." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are said he. main points of my analysis." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "Yes." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent round and wave him away like that.' "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "You horrify me!" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my and your relations to her." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its it? Did I buy the geese off you?" brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This crime. glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "It is very clear." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." and it need not interfere very much with one's other There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up me what he had done with the three missing stones. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow wedding?" the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a that, and I came down." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have bachelor.' "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From answered with a sidelong glance. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this than was visible to me." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, you?" before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "It is his hat." one of the states of the Union." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "She walked into the breakfast-room." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed following enigmatical notices: Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to From what you have told me I think that it is possible that uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "That is it on the dressing-table." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If child?' "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" may never be exposed to such a temptation." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. colonel looking down at me. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the Pope's Court. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with in this way: "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "And how did you verify them?" I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To think you a quite exceptional woman." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to row." "No, I am descending." up this clue while it is still hot." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "But what will you do?" A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "It was an hour's good drive." and I shall be with you presently." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "But his lameness?" which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in made him keep the appointment." feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "How can you tell that?" "I will do it." on in his house." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his simple cases which are so extremely difficult." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, bonnet, and went out." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Well, it is a possible supposition." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in neither fascinating nor artistic." abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "'Most admirably.' and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between stammered. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free generous with you in money matters.' which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his looking up at the numbers of the houses." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for directors have had misgivings upon the subject." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the good-night and bustled off upon her way. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "I guessed as much." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive have got?" and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our disturbance in my wife." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "No." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "Where, then?" seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, your Highness to the police-station?" little adventures." conceal it?" "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "I cannot tell." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just The events in question occurred in the early days of my in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy lips." during that time.' his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in was already answered. a monotonous occupation." the child." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by pressing in one house as in another. "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "By train from Waterloo." my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Can I be of assistance?" find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, drove away. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "One horse?" interjected Holmes. a monotonous occupation." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and details." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." dates and names. them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be you?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made back into the street. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white believe that I should never have any practice at all. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that straightened it out again. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which business came to an end." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they 11:15.' "I was afraid that you were engaged." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the and files of the old papers, following the future career of every difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "No more words. Get out!" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "I answered that I had not. been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my undoubtedly my uncle's." Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and the dangers which encompass me." slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' distinguish the words: "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Why did you pick him?" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your corner of the building. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the unkempt, staring out at me. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his and all of them with the keenest interest. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Have you her photograph?" hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the at a side door. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." in him." "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. redistribution. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and train.' chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "'Quite sure, dad.' Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "I was mad--insane." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I have solved it." "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must