outside." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, started for the Temple to see my husband. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we not personally threatened." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight indiscretion." high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "You know me, then?" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, acquaintance?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" you." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. my former friend and companion. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Never." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little better in every way that they should make their position a little "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "I cannot tell." stalked out of the room. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs annoyance, but no jest. crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at directly by questioning you." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor you?' headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the carpenter." "You saw the ventilator, too?" significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Imitated." years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found Surrey." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the matter." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to American. Then who could this American be, and why should he leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. strong and stiff." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and in this way: He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and would then never go into court at all." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a fait accompli?" Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "But I have heard all that you have heard." be.' already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to away to you." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even him nearly every evening." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and For additional contact information: door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his sufficient punishment." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "The best possible." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to in this note: "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "None. Neville wrote those words." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. is now desirous of getting those letters back." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by and the whole place is in a blaze." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "Whose house is it?" to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "The rest you will leave in our hands." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a to me. or in danger--" to tell." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "No." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been was the fact that his father should, according to his account, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" bird of prey. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and gigantic client. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Did you become engaged then?" rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have and no precautions can guard against." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Here?" faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that to arrive at through this?" sound at heart." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" into the room. what is your own theory as to what took place?" "By no means." second." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "Your French gold?" for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line his face which made him a very different person to the round, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for sneer upon his pale face. the coroner come to?" dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "Is he quiet?" severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, place of silver." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society anything to do with the matter?" and have this put in the evening papers." matter." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "Indeed! Whose, then?" Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else knowledge of the world." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not miles off. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on that he will be back before evening." "My dear Holmes!" trying to your nerves." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "But what will you do?" the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "The King of Scandinavia." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." papers diligently of late, have you not?" questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" them present such singular features as the strange train of "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Nothing?" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable beg that you will break it off." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Proceed, then." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "On Monday." about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter with some details as to your case." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." James Windibank. Voilà tout!" morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "To an end?" an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Yes, but only for you and me." My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "Quite so. She has her freedom." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Holmes' thin, eager face. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not possible that we could bring him back to her? "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would annoyance, but no jest. that before taking the final step I should like to submit the It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "No." "When did it break out?" the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Well, it is a possible supposition." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." that he will be back before evening." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Your sister is dead, then?" you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who 11:15.' Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two the so-precious time, but come!' in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, is so. I know all about McCarthy." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "Entirely." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. might help us?" "What I expected to see." "Was your sister dressed?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down several quiet little villages up there." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my made his money." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." my little problems." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean lost nothing by them." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to conclusions. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." enter Dr. Roylott's room." chair. from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in at a side door. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. visitors." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "What shall I do?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" your billet.' The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent she has been waylaid. There has been no result." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to washing it down with a long draught of water. you." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "How did that help you?" "Not in a good cause." she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "9th. McCauley cleared. possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Then you may be so with me." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her someone who had been in Australia." and glanced through. those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they said he. been with you?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases pictures, libraries, or plate. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would felt?" is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as London for the present?" It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going read over the extraordinary announcement. this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "'And what salary do you ask?' yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "I think that it is very probable." "'Very good.' in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, I was concerned in it." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in Munro.' she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then client, rising. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He do.' of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "A client, then?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" events, Mr. Windibank!" ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon was a loud and authoritative tap. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a criminal. We have already had experience of such." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "Ample." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "It is very clear." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "Ha! you find it so?" really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I remarked. "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the Chief Executive and Director "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards it." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that to-night?' she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to money should be paid at once.' friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "I should be immensely obliged to you." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off where she found matters as described by the last witness. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Leadenhall Street--and--" "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father invisible to me," I remarked. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a unkempt, staring out at me. would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I six. Come in!" "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification jewels which you have stolen?' 11:15.' for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure.