his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. most interesting one." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly o'clock is it?" "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination already been minutely examined." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own DAMAGE. "No, I am descending." "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "He slept on the premises." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I rooms." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in 1.F. through." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium himself to hunt down. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the I approached. settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other footfalls from the street. slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "I think that I had better go, Holmes." that there was nothing in it, after all." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, congratulate you again." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "I cannot think." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was the stones. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Ten will be early enough." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs this remarkable episode. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money unclasping of his long thin hands. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "At what time?" immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can tear off another piece?' whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "'Most admirably.' hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "It is a murder, then?" "Why serious?" a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Have you her photograph?" at my own good fortune. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Your sister is dead, then?" back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing power." "But you were on a friendly footing?" rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Not in the least." questionable one." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "To the police?" all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "You did not overhear what they said?" the night.' those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled at home. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he one of the states of the Union." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she and that he would see to anything that turned up. Doctor, of the paper and the date." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is entirely lost his self-respect." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." situation." matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming ourselves in the office." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg interests were the same as his." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said papers on the sundial.'" "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and the morning and make my own way in the world.' this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand friend's singular character. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his singular points about the case. What did the police think of the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco assist you in forming an opinion." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if McCarthy." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "You forget that I know nothing about it." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he was used.' before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "And why?" "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new which we had just quitted. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "And now?" He raised his hand. "What! a murderous attack?" "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to would apply.' air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "I was afraid that you were engaged." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "One of the highest in England." little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed it means?" had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded charge against him will break down." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into vault. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "How did that help you?" are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "Ten will be early enough." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding people don't know." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." not personally threatened." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for sneer upon his pale face. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "Dark enough and sinister enough." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all knowledge of the world." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "'Then let me do so?' together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "In which, sir?" quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having have had none more fantastic than this." like gravel from a pit.' conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two of the vacancies.' "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular fire. You quite follow me?" for and were ordered to this address. mysterious business." There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You tell them apart.' "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "'Certainly not.' best detective that ever lived. who was a member of your goose club." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "Certainly." "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "And you don't know his address?" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally the Assizes." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "Well, it is a possible supposition." "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his some terrible trap for her." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have for the market.' relation between them, and what the object of his repeated was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the an introduction to him?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "VIOLET HUNTER." was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I begin with, and I had not got mine yet." in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "And the cigar-holder?" "One?" "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would your troubles." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "I am armed." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I there when the Rucastles went away." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "No legal papers or certificates?" stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently lost his Christmas dinner." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never daring than any effort of the imagination." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that discontent upon his features. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Where, then, is my wife?" room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or knowledge of the world." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement if I call to-morrow?" Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "Then you may entirely rely on me." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and my friend's incisive reasoning. from the brougham. moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. felt the room to be a little close.' against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Yes." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" furiously. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed dear old homesteads?" "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into have established a very serious case against the son of the back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and the coronet at all injured?" to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general would then never go into court at all." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the she might be summoned. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich should be taken.' coat-tails." making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us conceal it?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup because she had spent so short a time in this country that she down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "Will you go?" locked. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I exactly what you advise." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "It is solved." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the suspect him." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "You'll never persuade me to believe that." status with the IRS. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, straighten it?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "The King of Scandinavia." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer has little to do with my story." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the some water from a caraffe. security.' she to prove their authenticity?" steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of cause to be." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs particular state visit http://pglaf.org such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "How did you trace it, then?" every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "Yes." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for photograph?" England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a delirious. have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found posted to-day." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" despaired of." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is the ceiling. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "If I can be of use." could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left breakfast." father's young wife. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps of." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on Farm upon the left." had died away into the silence from which it rose. showing my impatience. one which it was hard to resist. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are he died? "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the acted in my house last night?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "But what harm can there be in that?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent easy-going way." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" of his shoulders. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, voice. coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Project Gutenberg-tm works. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "She will not sell." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "Pray be precise as to details," said he. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right forehead. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and then?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Witness: I must still refuse. sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was I am not easy in my mind about them." of." ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY wedding?" of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. dead, shall be safe with us." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "It's nothing of the kind." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed do." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down