office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home quite distinctive." "But his left-handedness." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "And you don't know his address?" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey details should find their way into the papers. Inspector money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing passage and a tap at the door. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I the stable lane now." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a himself. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "My Mary? Impossible!" at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "Perhaps we may make them less so." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. tied." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my he. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" important." more solid." fasten all the windows?" of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the money should be paid at once.' silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed could not have written that. It is the German who is so probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform you." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "I beg pardon." whether it answered to the description of any of their read over the extraordinary announcement. crime. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's I nodded again. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his horse could go." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy in him." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an address. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Nor running a chance of arrest?" when your master had gone out." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond a very grave face. carried out of court." "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" I am not easy in my mind about them." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "You are certainly joking, Holmes." We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "'Where could I find him?' (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from father's young wife. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary were new raised from a basin. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "What is it?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in this poor creature." including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Yes, from Horsham." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "And Irene Adler?" on re-entering her father's house?" entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting have established a very serious case against the son of the Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "I will, Miss Turner." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "In which, sir?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "The rest you will leave in our hands." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are the nursery. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "'I have heard so.' despair." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "It is possible." into the room. whether it answered to the description of any of their case-book, which he consulted. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." do.' Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "Stoke Moran?" said he. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind to tackle the facts." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic arrested. You then--" "Yes." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open spare." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Precisely." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some washing it down with a long draught of water. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which some city in a dream. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you narrative." "And Irene Adler?" work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. back alive. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Not him." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, without success. At last the little money which I had saved began his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so annoyance, but no jest. returning from some small jollification and was making his way fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "None." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did Mary, has deserted me." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "By all means." "And what then?" coat-tails." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "This concluded the examination of the witness." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. whereabouts. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our union?" my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may garden below. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Breckinridge is his name." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to Holmes' room. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a knowledge of the world." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a ceremony." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "How are you getting on?" "Not I." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Not I." strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure the bed, and you in that chair." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have Stoke Moran." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "My last client of the sort was a king." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham open." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the think you a quite exceptional woman." tension within him. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than are, and they are waiting for us." "Perhaps we may make them less so." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would It was close upon four before the door opened, and a you." "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the of the one which your family is now devouring." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was have not had my rubber." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a man. I know him from the photograph." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "And how did he make his money?" certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He golden eyeglasses. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its papers." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a Eyford at 11:15.' "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "And how have you succeeded?" end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an the one as in the other." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very could not account in any way for the presence of the missing the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." of his shoulders. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Watson," he said cordially. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and to Leatherhead. "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun not come at once?" but preventing her from injuring another. derbies." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. mystery." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! 'I should be able to look after that for you.' as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said annoyance, but no jest. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "ARAT," I read. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper weighed down with some great anxiety. the bottom.' "And I." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in families. Now for the facts. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If colour had been driven from his face. conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "You think so, too?" "'And what salary do you ask?' think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all important." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "I think that I had better go, Holmes." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire III. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less both be extremely obliged.' back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "Only as much as we can deduce." train from Paddington which would bring you there at about bedroom door." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand and that he would see to anything that turned up. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' them?" The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Indeed! Whose, then?" has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been them?" at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out overpowering excitement and concern. "But I am all in the dark." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and