red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age knowledge of the world." peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very ready to-morrow?' hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was detective. "Stoke Moran?" said he. and the whole place is in a blaze." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "And how in the world did you find them?" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each points to suicide?" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No "Very murderous indeed." the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and that threaten you." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. your sleep?' to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of sparkled upon his finger. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, which should have the effect of calling the attention of the what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which seem to you to be relevant or not." back into the street. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. had a long day." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. in darkness. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his been anything against him. He had for years been known as a heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Nothing?" tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely any little problem which you may submit to me." "My dear Holmes!" Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "The rest you will leave in our hands." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between forecastle of an emigrant ship. Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in the stable lane now." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has in my life." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "Never to return." forehead. unclasping of his long thin hands. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to handed it to him. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the thin, with a long, sharp nose?" more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared the so-precious time, but come!' this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "My last client of the sort was a king." reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' death." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid skylight. upon a handsome competence. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. unprofitable." the one as in the other." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt been deceived." again." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "Why did you pick him?" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely forbidden door. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "By no means." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "They are typewritten," I remarked. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. himself in a perplexing position. he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior where she found matters as described by the last witness. "And your father? Did you tell him?" hard-headed British jury." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." what these perils are?" of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "And on what day did he meet his death?" sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "Not I." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love would then never go into court at all." cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a The summons was a brief and urgent one. "But what is it you wish?" "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the "We have tried and failed." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "How about poison?" retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "What will you do, then?" then?" to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "That is unusual in a young girl." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "When did it break out?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may and files of the old papers, following the future career of every the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "I have come for advice." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Ah!" saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was and have this put in the evening papers." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "But the mystery?" hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "To an English lawyer named Norton." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and thirty. low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the photograph?" whereabouts. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and bare slabs of marble. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "A greater distance to travel." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "He is dead," cried several voices. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if will take you up to see the machine.' the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in like gravel from a pit.' "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "I see no marks." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on child?' I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. the bed, and you in that chair." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Not yet." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "The rest you will leave in our hands." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite your only hope of safety." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number your most interesting statement." everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of for and were ordered to this address. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or you came in." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he him!" "To the police?" tail." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Your sister is dead, then?" and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to to where he stood hid behind the curtain. strength." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "Well, some hundreds of times." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "It is half-past ten now." home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any Munro.' making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Ten will be early enough." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year him, that man would not have given me such complete information bachelor.' Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for your troubles." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger observed. absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This them?" wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. have accepted such a situation. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "What have you to say now?" obstinate." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "On Monday." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You away into the river." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Her father is very rich?" rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the one which it was hard to resist. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to British peeress.'" "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of works. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "What is it, then--a fire?" stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my bears upon the case?" dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great next day. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us clanging. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "Absolutely?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no look dissatisfied." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "Absolutely none." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with locked." "In San Francisco, a year ago." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." the inquest, and which are worth considering." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "It is solved." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers a very grave face. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet sofa. This way, please!" light and attacked it." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. my secret was safe in his possession. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit bird of prey. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "But she will refuse." hurried away. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging guilty one." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I have one." surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon of this gang." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps to his chemical studies. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "I cannot tell." read over the extraordinary announcement. "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "Well." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." your room." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the on re-entering her father's house?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune I. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was carpenter." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you excitement. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been Where does the thing come from?' mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. bears upon the case?" flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "Witness: Nothing definite. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if him to go away.' state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Yes, all." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would