with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch something of him before." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Frequently." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All sneer upon his pale face. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "What?" beg that you will break it off." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate sit on the left-hand side of the driver." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready bearing upon the case." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, affair. ventilator." straightened it out again. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, on in his house." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry ordinary clothes on?" coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was already been minutely examined." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. look upon these things in a different way." long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know was lame." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of for and were ordered to this address. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "I will get her to show me." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "No." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and criminal. We have already had experience of such." the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt kindly on the shoulder. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "'What are you doing there?' he asked. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in wedding?" unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small him and tried to hold him back. The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured read it out to me." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My a very grave face. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to waste of energy." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Here?" where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. opened the door, and slipped through. the stones. "'As governess?' whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There matter." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "'Which dealer's?' "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Dirty?" matter." "Nothing?" withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely my little problems." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable woven round him. "'What would be the hours?' I asked. populous neighbourhood." think you a quite exceptional woman." be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "By all means." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "That's no good." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person chemical work which was so dear to him. locked." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts may have an influence upon European history." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Will you bet, then?" "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "But we can't all be." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up cheerful." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I to affect your life." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing test if we have an answer to our advertisement." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and were wasted." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "Stolen, then." "And I." remarked. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis information in his hands the value of which he did not himself but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my soul! here is her carriage at the door." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." your room." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his cigars in their mouths. 1.F. flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a golden eyeglasses. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional married her." "You horrify me!" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I and inquire as to the address." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, a very grave face. "I guessed as much." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, him and tried to hold him back. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered that he has suffered." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It in one or two places in England?' soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were question," said Holmes, smiling. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "I would pay ten." man. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled sit on the left-hand side of the driver." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, some terrible trap for her." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Was your sister dressed?" rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "I think it very unlikely." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom his face. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and it. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "I was mad--insane." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It newspaper selections." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "The rest you will leave in our hands." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was paper in the air. while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "No, I am descending." individual and becomes the badge of a society." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when were unconscious?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. appeal." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left said he. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was tell them apart.' His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "'What do you call purely nominal?' in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" lamp in his hand. not personally threatened." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they outsides of the windows. Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us within hail.' quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. knowledge of the world." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Holmes' thin, eager face. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "'Quite sure, dad.' "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "'Why that?' I asks. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "'Not at all. I only doubt--' making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, promised to bring home. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, McCarthy's innocence. unprecedented a position." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "'Not at all. I only doubt--' to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Then, as to money?" Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Dirty?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his very old mansion. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "To ruin me." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to interested in these little problems, and since you are good "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon other lovers by making love himself." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "But how did you gain them?" once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "But how will you look?" "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler respectable self." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the and your relations to her." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. is four-and-twenty." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant few hundred pounds.' know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which with some details as to your case." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward certainly do as you advise." is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "You will not go there first?" One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. thin legs towards the fire. willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever entirely devoid of interest." Holmes' room. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were guilty parties." meant." seven miles from Eyford Station.' that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "Whose house is it?" "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There Lestrade of Scotland Yard." help us in this matter." "But it has twice been burgled." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Ten will be early enough." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "My dear Holmes!" is," said he presently: was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a writing, and yet I know it well." drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove least a most suspicious remark." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of villagers almost as much as their master. others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "It came here." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they 'please.'" his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "It looks newer than the other things?" make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a test if we have an answer to our advertisement." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was of it with the greatest attention. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away have I gained?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and wedding?" metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "Yes." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into here and I will read it to you: here." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "What I expected to see." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know DAMAGE. "Well?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "But I have heard all that you have heard." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "I have come for advice." five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "A client, then?" were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "No." chance." there in twenty minutes." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late quickly through a disagreeable task. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, instincts rose up against that laugh. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, and put his glass in his pocket. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a look upon these things in a different way." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, skylight. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, criminal. We have already had experience of such." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." should be taken.' "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "I don't say that. Perhaps." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes