hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a sound at heart." over with notes and figures. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Has he come with you to-night?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Yes." young Openshaw's." "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her bedroom door." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of you found me to-night--and running through the front room she such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Perhaps we may make them less so." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he upon an income of about 60 pounds." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a newspaper selections." occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the my friend's incisive reasoning. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which words came to my lips. beyond words. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders again." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "And what did you learn from him?" nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others are, and they are waiting for us." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "Was she in good spirits?" There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, new acquaintance to Baker Street. wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross miles off. they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some to surprise her." "And you don't know his address?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." a room. 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black hereditary King of Bohemia." "My dear Holmes!" be.' had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson made him keep the appointment." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "I will not look." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "At what time?" remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." status with the IRS. him. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for not interfere, come what may. You understand?" awaited us upon the table. "Precisely so. But how--" one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had the child." must be when I saw the door open.' "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my be best to do. he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a my special province." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of some terrible trap for her." cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "The King of Scandinavia." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Not in a good cause." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Yes, at the mines." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," little adventures." was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "'There is a drive, then?' partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "I should be immensely obliged to you." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up of them has the shutters up.' "Always." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan and the whole place is in a blaze." a room. meant it for the best. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "'Entirely.' his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the lost nothing by them." impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I kindly on the shoulder. "Not him." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "Not social, then?" walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late colonel looking down at me. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Not I." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was prepare for the new role I have to play." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we himself to tell his story. "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which for and were ordered to this address. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We fatally injured? "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and fattened it expressly for you.' in one or two places in England?' "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "No more words. Get out!" object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of once more. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "My Mary? Impossible!" assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that will find little credit to be gained out of this case." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were for and were ordered to this address. the bottom.' prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the ready to-morrow?' some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in a suggestive one." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, during which he might have communicated with his friend the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in out of this horrible affair." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even events than those which have happened in my own family." "It is very kind of you." morning." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back the dangers which encompass me." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Quite so." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been out of this horrible affair." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated before, for it was considerably after midnight. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." spark where all is dark to me." next day. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. compunction about shooting them down." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. side. read over the extraordinary announcement. the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Dr. Becher's." "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong fuss that is made over them." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "His face fell immediately. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Do you know him?" "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless with some details as to your case." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "But you would not advise me to refuse?" Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser anything to a woman, for she would have her way." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our fled together." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "Yes, all." back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Lestrade of Scotland Yard." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his approach us with offers to donate. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a place no limit on the sum I may draw." the ceiling. You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! ways including including checks, online payments and credit card occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." made him keep the appointment." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt keep the flames under. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional the coroner come to?" "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "'What would be the hours?' I asked. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "I have come for advice." I. you in yours." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' meant it for the best. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what charged with?" Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. business matters.' "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I fluttered off among the others. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, the Friday. Was it to be in church?" another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a answer." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at out of this horrible affair." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business even of instruction." think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. read over the extraordinary announcement. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were lips." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined character. has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing This is what he says: hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as me have 200 pounds?' exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "What do you mean?" "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "'Quite sure, dad.' threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are will be renamed. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything lost nothing by them." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and remarked. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "It is a murder, then?" his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the bonnet, and went out." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round and a shock of very red hair. me what he had done with the three missing stones. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our "None." He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "Precisely." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense ran thus: "My dear Holmes!" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, deduce something from that?" as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful guilty parties." "No." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he developed." drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "What can you not understand?" you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out direction." never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is 'please.'" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a your Highness to the police-station?" perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that envelope. abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Do you go out much in society?" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or hair?' The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' clanging. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "'Very good.' "On your arm?" "'As governess?' "What of the rat, then?" the window, rose as we entered. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the voice. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of not fit the lock." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort