every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired think, you have already met." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which events, Mr. Windibank!" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism to where he stood hid behind the curtain. again on its way. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. my friend's incisive reasoning. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The up this clue while it is still hot." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "No. His orders were to stay in the house." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I at once, for I have only half an hour." opened the door, and slipped through. "He is still with you, I presume?" "Well, it is a possible supposition." writing, and yet I know it well." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus meant it for the best. province." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the the bed, and you in that chair." to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in yards of it?' it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were returned to France?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of less than 26s. 4d. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is was already answered. the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his relief. of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front swore that no one else had been in the front room during the The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was and files of the old papers, following the future career of every time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I occurred." quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "Of what day?" through." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to direction." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor Chief Executive and Director When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do he bowed and left the room without another word. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way have accepted such a situation. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the head. So long, then!" "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened results." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were Holmes rather sternly. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided hand, madam?" her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be letters?" dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may McCarthy." "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted during the last few years, and there are many noble families to half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly country, and eventually married, without anyone having a throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the some terrible trap for her." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am such attractions and accomplishments?' "I say that I have solved it." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of with you alone." what do you think they found in the pockets?" "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the over part of the map. "What do you read?" dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine was a lad." gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded occurred." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "Entirely." "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is digesting their breakfasts at home." me upon any point which I do not make clear." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which said he. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all was the fact that his father should, according to his account, stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, case before our client came into the room." "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all next day. "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my soul! here is her carriage at the door." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "'Very good.' "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" done what I asked you, Jones?" "The King of Scandinavia." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the has little to do with my story." Count Von Kramm." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." were unconscious?" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand sound at heart." his huge brown hands. "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," to a more successful conclusion." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so call you and give you the chance." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never this remarkable episode. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "I would pay ten." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, out." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates bedroom door." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not written, and locked the door of the office after me. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Where to?" railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little arrested. You then--" "My own seal." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled habit of advancing money.' some city in a dream. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "I will try. What is it?" "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a strong reason behind." like that before?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a ourselves in the office." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which so.' and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down call for protection in the marriage market, for the present showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then searched, without anything being found which could incriminate a suggestive one." Again Holmes raved in the air. the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "Did your wife hear all this?" lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the placed his cuttings. theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." go--none." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say some water from a caraffe. prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in becomes even more simple." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "ARAT," I read. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught during which he might have communicated with his friend the wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well in a very precise fashion." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom are windows in it, of course?" cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional John Swain, of St. Augustine. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his he died? Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." some terrible trap for her." woman." where she found matters as described by the last witness. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This persecution?" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." friends, not even his own brother. permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into such attractions and accomplishments?' she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth quick march!" gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is opened the door, and slipped through. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most time." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an I leave." "Your French gold?" sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of begin with, and I had not got mine yet." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I once more for Briony Lodge. the house with me." abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this visitors." "In the cells." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Pray do so." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the station." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" his eyes and forehead. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "You forget that I know nothing about it." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite when your master had gone out." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend British peeress.'" "Get out!" said he. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "But who is he?" "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she of the vacancies.' "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "So I heard. You have him here?" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then believe that I should never have any practice at all. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange was a perfect sample of the class. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Always." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Well, some hundreds of times." shaken than I had ever seen him. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they Chief Executive and Director however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to attention." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into neither fascinating nor artistic." "Did your wife hear all this?" then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I papers diligently of late, have you not?" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of in this note: occupations.' I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial conduct the inquiry." to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which these bleak autumnal evenings." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to seven miles from Eyford Station.' "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not Gutenberg-tm License. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the sparkled upon his finger. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of a light. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, see a sister of mine apply for." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands fluttered off among the others. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "Certainly, madam." "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and hour?' behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his this unhappy family?" out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's and prosperity to your house. Good-night." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Did he not advertise?" because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Will you bet, then?" direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small soul! here is her carriage at the door." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "I am armed." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "It missed him, then?" "Then I do not see the point." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Game for a morning drive?" be there in time for your coming." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "I cannot say that I have." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was