Project Gutenberg-tm works. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has I nodded again. persecution?" the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a and put his glass in his pocket. "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent system of imprisonment?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal this Miss Turner." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. new duties?' "Why did you pick him?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very you." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of me have 200 pounds?' as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "But I have heard all that you have heard." him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the gbnewby@pglaf.org "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he considering the formidable letters which were received by himself The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "In San Francisco, a year ago." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the business in the City. She little knew what. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers I nodded again. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Witness: I must still refuse. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "On the contrary, this is the right side." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "And it is--" "How did you trace it, then?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear the roots. "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the as noiselessly as she had come. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would four million human beings all jostling each other within the The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at attention." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but little trying to do so much typewriting?" and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "No, but the enclosure is." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "It is very clear." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which outside." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." the so-precious time, but come!' what these perils are?" be there in time for your coming." "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was during which he might have communicated with his friend the quite distinctive." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "And I." answer." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes James Windibank. Voilà tout!" than was visible to me." acted in my house last night?" how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear in him." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "And when will you call?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." helping a boy to put up the shutters. hands. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two that I can to serve you." "Absolutely?" "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no row." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads had picked up in the wood. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "'Yes, I promise.' a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers do." matter." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, highroad, where all traces were lost. "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." into the bag, and made for the door. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "No, I think that I'll take it." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand just called myself is not exactly my own." "That is unusual in a young girl." to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "He said that you could solve anything." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your past. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary which was all perfectly true. may never be exposed to such a temptation." "It is true that I have been generally successful." bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "I cannot as yet see any connection." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather strong and stiff." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the seem to you to be relevant or not." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" habit of advancing money.' patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was said he, "my real name is James Ryder." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded indiscretion." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the Assizes." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house it means?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, go--none." extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "I have come for advice." "'Certainly,' I answered. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "There is the writing." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to someone who had been in Australia." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves DISSOLVED. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a you in yours." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his a few minutes he said that it would be all right. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my that I may have something better before very many minutes are "At half-wages, in fact." explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who in the hope of finding them." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new light and attacked it." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something this remarkable episode. pressing in one house as in another. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put away in different directions, and I went off to make my own my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had question," said Holmes, smiling. my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Quite so." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock not personally threatened." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the begin with, and I had not got mine yet." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "So I am. Very much so." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to nothing of it?" Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to him to be an active member of the medical profession." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' spare." "I have solved it." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which walking." remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my the side-table." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down cost them two and thirty pounds." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "At the wedding breakfast." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man means taking possession of that which another person has a prior had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. could go. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat three of the beryls in it, was missing. through." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "You horrify me." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. your most interesting statement." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "'Certainly not. But why?' ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I Edgeware Road. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the enter into my head. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a mysterious business." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew not come at once?" their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said man. I know him from the photograph." never will be, entirely cleared up. clanging. shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like believe that I should never have any practice at all. "And now?" He raised his hand. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "And that is--" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are standing smiling on the door-step. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those perplexity from it to my illustrious client. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands Miss Holder?" "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was shadow pass over his face as I spoke. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in will not take me long to tell. and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us yourselves in at night?" figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project redistribution. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you details should find their way into the papers. Inspector remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "I am following you closely," I answered. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On a little more before I quite committed myself. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "By train from Waterloo." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should http://www.gutenberg.net spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." colour had been driven from his face. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it least a fellow-countryman. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "How do you know, then?" to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." any." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the here." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in fire. You quite follow me?" "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "I do." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy quickly through a disagreeable task. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "How did he come?" him. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All do.' Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Sholtos." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "May I see it?" "To ruin me." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, the roots. were new raised from a basin. blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever we went to search for him, face downward in a little style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have some terrible trap for her." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this it? Did I buy the geese off you?" just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the which it had come upon my father." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in DAMAGE. salesman. stammered. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Quite so. She has her freedom." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, I. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Really! You surprise me." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the have got?" more solid." "Pray let us have it, for all that." "It is solved." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. mystery." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you suggested at once that there must be a communication between the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out purpose of examination. This is what he says: "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who in a very precise fashion." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than we went to search for him, face downward in a little hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence London for the present?" which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Of what?" the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "What, then, did Peterson do?" 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and appeal." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens must compliment you." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that me have 200 pounds?' so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said.