dates and names. upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as The King stared at him in amazement. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything of fine shops and stately business premises that they really dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you McCarthy's innocence. whatever might befall. photograph?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "'Certainly not. But why?' "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried him and tried to hold him back. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without deduce something from that?" waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "Then I shall certainly come." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the placed his cuttings. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and and looked back. "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Quite so." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the weapon." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "And is that all?" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I one of the states of the Union." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the row." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that the iron safe, which he closed upon it. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "Your presence might be invaluable." "I cannot as yet see any connection." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where them?" "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. later, upon the night of May 2nd." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. some terrible trap for her." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "I was mad--insane." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Well, some hundreds of times." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own despair." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, any more." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door just ask you whether you had heard it.' a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." Have you good authority for what you say?" residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "An accident, I presume?" have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by throat." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it is a common subject for conversation. vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my the warnings." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the should be taken.' passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it Literary Archive Foundation spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." know what is wrong with it.' society." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have sit on the left-hand side of the driver." decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not me what he had done with the three missing stones. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "I will, Miss Turner." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with that I am arrested." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress her also." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. knowledge of the world." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "He disappeared so suddenly." prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "I see many objections to any such theory." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back suggested at once that there must be a communication between the disturbance in my wife." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for a little more before I quite committed myself. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very was a lad." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all of the way of danger. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a giving me time to thank him. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came enter into my head. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, it. invisible to me," I remarked. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the make me his representative both with the servants and with the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "I assure you that I am in your hands." husband's writing, madam." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Yes, I have one waiting." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out Dr. Gregory B. Newby only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "'Never,' said I. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "She showed me, as I told you she would." morning." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "And sit in the dark?" criminal. We have already had experience of such." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the behind me. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull The King stared at him in amazement. for securing the situation." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "My last client of the sort was a king." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "But you were on a friendly footing?" "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "How did he come?" star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "And I to find an enemy." "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed putting in the horse. you?" he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the crackling voice. any." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." at my remark. train.' passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "And the cigar-holder?" A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, extraordinary contortions. peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come do.' very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy should be taken.' high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about golden eyeglasses. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that I have it here in my museum." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, main points of my analysis." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was advice." Sutherland. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Of Friday, June 19th." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them soul! here is her carriage at the door." agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a in a very precise fashion." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent had this final quarrel? "Well?" the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Nothing?" discontent upon his features. "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. with some details as to your case." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg careless servant girl?" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed head. So long, then!" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "'Certainly not.' details." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter could not account in any way for the presence of the missing ago." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Yes, it would be as well." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite is," said he presently: should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have he. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "I came to find a friend." "Texas, I think." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to to some other building. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon dear old homesteads?" "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of shag which I had seen upon the previous night. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' closing the door. with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them October 9, 1890. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly became a certainty. "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "'Ample.' felt?" your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was infinite languor in his face. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin