and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "I was certainly surprised to find you there." impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "I assure you that I am in your hands." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Married! When?" yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the the best of training." whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal imbecility!" he cried. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "At what time?" Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" to tell." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well what these perils are?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped but preventing her from injuring another. inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was forecastle of an emigrant ship. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for could go. wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our death." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "I have hopes." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Precisely." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "But what will you do?" A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." official police." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." woven round him. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. prepare for the new role I have to play." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of you?' "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone arms and began to sob in a high treble key. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed assist you in forming an opinion." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my my friend's incisive reasoning. in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "How did he come?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on as yours." room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "No." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should may have an influence upon European history." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Holmes, the busybody!" call it cruel." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the evidence," I remarked. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four details." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of and effective." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if weighed down with some great anxiety. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen shall use the carriage to-night." "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Sutherland. Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Deserted you?" surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, in his hands." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. speckled band?" Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "Absolutely?" James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a golden eyeglasses. see a sister of mine apply for." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "How long did she speak to this Alice?" man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT himself in a perplexing position. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had key of the affair now." my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. in the port of London." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." 'please.'" "None. Neville wrote those words." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I conversation I have gathered that they have been married about The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and October 9, 1890. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to detective. "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you photograph?" these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "In heaven's name, what for?" Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Yes, the wine-cellar." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" gigantic client. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I about. light and attacked it." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet to have that photograph." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "Not social, then?" side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as relief. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could nonsense.' this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Was the window open?" colonel looking down at me. "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is character. "Did he not advertise?" Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "So I heard. You have him here?" comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Pray let us have it, for all that." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of forebodings. commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy less than 26s. 4d. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the off." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a which we had just quitted. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them your troubles." entirely devoid of interest." peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' which I could not give. He asked for Alice. details." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "He might." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such The events in question occurred in the early days of my "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Count Von Kramm." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he then?" "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the "That is not always so easy." "He said that you could solve anything." "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "What do you make of that, Watson?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had introspective fashion. strength of mind to control. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "It is half-past ten now." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the side-table." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which room had already been engaged for us. with you alone." get the tickets." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, and it need not interfere very much with one's other he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to morning." lectures into a series of tales." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman Holmes' thin, eager face. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To details." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the people in all walks of life. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "'I am sure if I had known--' down. "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted in the port of London." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our then?" halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "But what harm can there be in that?" ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "We must have a cab." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Ah!" unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at prepare for the new role I have to play." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "A greater distance to travel." crowd. all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. society." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "Was he the only applicant?" something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "Deserted you?" can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting hair?' to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "But it has twice been burgled." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem I nodded again. "It is a murder, then?" between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "No, my brougham is waiting." the loss of it. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old even so self-evident a thing as that." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear this poor creature." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to "Yes." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had redistribution. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Of what day?" meant." guilty one." "No. What a strange idea!" hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "It was." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm over here." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his had a long day." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," it? Did I buy the geese off you?" as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the writers could invent nothing more crude." as this. Pray let me have the details." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "But the mystery?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, you give your casting vote to?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "'Then let me do so?' "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the as he folded up the epistle.