fluttered off among the others. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is generous with you in money matters.' "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man foot. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. I shall communicate with you." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is village inn over there?" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the tapping his fingers upon the table. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in only touch the interest." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which populous neighbourhood." into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my few hundred pounds.' "Will you go?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on and looked back. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. all-comprehensive glances. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "Yes, sir." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go gbnewby@pglaf.org Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is me." nonsense.' time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with morning." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler weigh very heavily upon my conscience." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in you do it in twenty minutes!' better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "You have the photograph?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but be best to do. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had and prosperity to your house. Good-night." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow was keenly on my guard against him. as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking The King stared at him in amazement. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" considering the formidable letters which were received by himself I nodded to show that I had heard. "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after McCarthy's innocence. arrested. You then--" should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were had picked up in the wood. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that open." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "And what did you learn from him?" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted outside." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "But your client--" had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to paper in the air. of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "'A dozen yards or so.' much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that himself to hunt down. This is what he says: have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are photograph?" to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a this man was intellectual?" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots deduce something from that?" the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "And from a noble client?" hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On leaning back in his chair. flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "May I see it?" through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under know that the truth is known." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "And what did you learn from him?" that the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." tied." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "And how?" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the call it cruel." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of think that any burglar could have done. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "What shall I do?" "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture little adventures." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "I will do it." long narrative. be best to do. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to success. salesman. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he father's place of business?" was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Never." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic man. I know him from the photograph." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside the loss of it. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained of the one which your family is now devouring." "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the and that he would see to anything that turned up. more terrible than the truth. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary chemical work which was so dear to him. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" and laid it on the table. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been affair. comes from the middle window." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She companion. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official been with you?" back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now you found me to-night--and running through the front room she destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by or in danger--" him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable few hundred pounds.' swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, have got?" copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "And did you observe any change in her then?" "Very much so." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you minor matters until to-morrow." interested in these little problems, and since you are good departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable of." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "It was." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary thought that she would have been so carried away." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked him and tried to hold him back. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The The King stared at him in amazement. experiences." someone who had been in Australia." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could shoulder; "he's all right." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back yet." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing gone. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the all?" "I am to be neutral?" case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Tired-looking or fresh?" I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "Deserted you?" "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that maid will bring up your coffee." who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you husband's writing, madam." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. advice." "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." The events in question occurred in the early days of my walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate on re-entering her father's house?" wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "And you can do nothing until then?" pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily read over the extraordinary announcement. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "How many? I don't know." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate I have it here in my museum." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "'There is a drive, then?' room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "My dear Holmes!" main points of my analysis." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Eyford." about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the maiden herself was most instructive." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a have not had my rubber." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an arrangements." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by fled together." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I entirely devoid of interest." "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "And why in hopes?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited and the whole place is in a blaze." "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" that he has suffered." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter to talk it over. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally sparkled upon his finger. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the you." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." relief. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I next day. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again chambers. submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year very morning of my second wedding." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "But I am all in the dark." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "Certainly." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced about. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "And how?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with recover the gem." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but soul! here is her carriage at the door." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith the so-precious time, but come!' railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the the night.' in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, bachelor.' "'Yes, I promise.' Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "I am in hopes that she does." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between of receipt of the work. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." habit of advancing money.' there was no need for father to know." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for searched, without anything being found which could incriminate still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of copied or distributed: the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "May I see it?" already referred to. "To the police?" was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "'What then?' I asked. garden below. would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "'In my own bureau.' redistribution. power." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my strong reason behind." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my I was concerned in it." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that