one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent instituted." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the Holmes rather sternly. went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Always." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, the coronet in his hand?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "Dirty?" "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers records." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "Well?" searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but placed his cuttings. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through brandy and water within his reach. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little do.' come either from the window or the door. My attention was three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "'Is purely nominal.' the matter." intrusion of other matters." "I don't believe it." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty there." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired "But we can't all be." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He appointment with me for six o'clock?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." dead, shall be safe with us." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and strength in the others." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Precisely so. But how--" corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "I cannot as yet see any connection." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, here." We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can have established a very serious case against the son of the them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this note?" delighted to hear it," he said. with you alone." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal such person." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of photograph?" was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in mysterious end." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "What can you not understand?" for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round or in danger--" peculiar to him. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what instituted." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." was used.' and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the asked. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. such attractions and accomplishments?' because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not signal between you and your father? "Here?" "Well." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that is four-and-twenty." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my Holmes' room. works. See paragraph 1.E below. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She think that he is innocent?" colour had been driven from his face. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "Yes, they were peculiar boots." during that time.' down from London to inquire more deeply into it." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and the dangers which encompass me." "It missed him, then?" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a light and attacked it." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for prison!" building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" you." the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event your billet.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread remarked. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "Nearly eleven." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to come either from the window or the door. My attention was observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and have one." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with your troubles." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "But you have hopes?" think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any silent! Oh, he will be silent!' bonnet, and went out." them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the You want to know what became of those geese?" other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the affair. once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and useful material for showing traces. The double line a little would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, along the entire front of the house, with three long windows 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house entirely lost his self-respect." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, papers on the sundial.'" had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, of the vacancies.' "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. look upon these things in a different way." set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of washing it down with a long draught of water. "Did you observe the colour?" my secret was safe in his possession. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide nothing of it?" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean The note was undated, and without either signature or address. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "No." We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of crime. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You girl said." "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, The King stared at him in amazement. gbnewby@pglaf.org star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his face and glided from the room. "Yes." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one tightly behind him. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the be sorry for having acted so harshly." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove take the flies, but not before." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did a suggestive one." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, passage and a tap at the door. and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but words came to my lips. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his completely overtopped every other consideration that we both a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "I shall be delighted." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our States. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "It is very clear." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "It certainly sounds feasible." until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate which are rolled in Rotterdam." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "What?" see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "That is not always so easy." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than Have you good authority for what you say?" to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they indeed happy." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "By all means." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Entirely." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means business." promised to bring home. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "We were both in the photograph." Arthur Conan Doyle sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "But of what society?" he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of meant it for the best. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the From what you have told me I think that it is possible that the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and locked. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend the address that was given us in the advertisement. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "That is easily got." at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. tapping his fingers upon the table. of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "That's no good." leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Just look it up, then." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a you in your example." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "By all means." "My dear Holmes!" "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "Was your sister dressed?" rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "My Mary? Impossible!" "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as it were putty." "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but one else, I think." years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let breakfast." it right.' every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "I say that I have solved it." front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no Chief Executive and Director dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when was already answered. ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, certainly do as you advise." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with to-night's adventure." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to the inquest, and which are worth considering." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "And how did you verify them?" remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the gigantic client. "Were they all fastened this morning?"