"A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once conversation I have gathered that they have been married about look dissatisfied." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. criminal. We have already had experience of such." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a present strange and interesting features that it is no easy pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the brandy and water within his reach. "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on 1.F. husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was sit on the left-hand side of the driver." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. has little to do with my story." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he the bed, and you in that chair." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, morning." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "I don't believe it." you?' License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "'Yes, sir.' matters immensely." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a Young McCarthy must be got off, however." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my foot. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time Leave Paddington by the 11:15." back into the street. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat of this gang." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag eavesdroppers?' it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Very murderous indeed." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "That is possible." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Did he not advertise?" His name is Francis Prosper." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very we went to search for him, face downward in a little skylight. the Assizes." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account questionable one." business matters.' idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, only touch the interest." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had information in his hands the value of which he did not himself which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." papers." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "I am following you closely," I answered. his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Heh?' dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Does that suggest anything?" that threaten you." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the gentleman's clothes. overpowering excitement and concern. "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he are windows in it, of course?" pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "What shall I do?" THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part three of the beryls in it, was missing. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "I have hopes." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over call you and give you the chance." Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across Eyford at 11:15.' "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "The best possible." "ARAT," I read. "I promise," said Holmes. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and the coronet at all injured?" twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." you understand?" crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, was feeling which was the fattest.' contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular to talk it over. appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be narrative." hour." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, remarked. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "He said too much." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid and a shock of very red hair. learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "But of what society?" way in everything. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "Yes, sir." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. troubles have been weighing upon his mind. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "How are you getting on?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord discontent upon his features. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "Stoke Moran?" said he. "On Monday." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "He said too much." success. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. know all about it," he snarled. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than to surprise her." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was to his chemical studies. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "'Ample.' "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "You have a clue?" existence." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in brain must have something in it." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally purpose of examination. do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. that I can to serve you." unkempt, staring out at me. until night should bring an explanation. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be feature." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "And I say east," said my patient. "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Who was the criminal, then?" opened the door, and slipped through. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his because she had spent so short a time in this country that she wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman less than 26s. 4d. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is husband's writing, madam." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be things are very often connected not with the larger but with the very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations could not account in any way for the presence of the missing Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "You have a clue?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. to-night?" I asked. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "I am sure." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "Oh, the cause is excellent!" the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows figure." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very them?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of relief. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white your co-operation." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Very much so." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "You are certainly joking, Holmes." exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I conclusions. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Absolutely none." digesting their breakfasts at home." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no Holmes." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "If I can be of use." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "None. Neville wrote those words." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it flock.' "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. without a word or a look. absorbing." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "But you can know nothing of this?" consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there key turn in the lock." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "I have seen the police." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and there has been an enclosure here!" forehead. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in burst out into a roar of laughter. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a towards the blaze. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With not, dad?" she asked. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I see me here to avoid scandal." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried which it had come upon my father." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their and all of them with the keenest interest. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "Won't it ring?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "And that is--" Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle lips." "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery handed it to him. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge horse could go." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began the warnings." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Certainly, madam." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "I think that it is very probable." They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't the so-precious time, but come!' was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a never came back." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Where, then?" ill-usage at the hands of fortune. vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling chambers. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so in my life." "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "I cannot imagine." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a My friend smiled. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple remarked. that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock tightly behind him. upon the shelf for the interim." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little and capable of preserving a secret.' Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real bore every mark of being an average commonplace British troubles have been weighing upon his mind. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "By train from Waterloo." "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, round and wave him away like that.' the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is been with you?" of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own four million human beings all jostling each other within the attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps