dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly I took the paper from him and read as follows: "Certainly." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "No, finished." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "I would give my fortune to have them back." "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the and the colonel ushered me in. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "But you have hopes?" practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter stepfather?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Just look it up, then." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "'In my own bureau.' "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Indeed! Whose, then?" "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an conclusions. "What will you do, then?" "And on what day did he meet his death?" had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger Farm upon the left." first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "Breckinridge is his name." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "I shall be delighted." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "And you can do nothing until then?" fasten all the windows?" should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in letters?" introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as for and were ordered to this address. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. Project Gutenberg-tm works. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read how narrow had been my escape. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "The King of Scandinavia." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional "Ah!" it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "Have you it here?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you drawing your inferences." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' a little more before I quite committed myself. he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, any more." any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should little adventures." "In San Francisco, a year ago." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added his forehead." come either from the window or the door. My attention was against a man in the prime of life?" Literary Archive Foundation the child." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until sufficient punishment." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "'Yes, it was gone.' laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune call it cruel." at once, for I have only half an hour." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "What shall I do?" better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are you want, then?' whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." learned something! Where are the gems?" where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To brandy and water within his reach. "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it signal between you and your father? Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "'You cannot say what it was?' of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow events, Mr. Windibank!" and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the wife's character?" "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. passage and a tap at the door. sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "My own seal." "Yes, the wine-cellar." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Sholtos." "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He confronted him. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret forbidden door. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an is," said he presently: "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. Surrey." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "My own seal." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but hereditary King of Bohemia." Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be foresight and the moral retrogression?" whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love you in yours." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass think that he is innocent?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "There is the writing." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her weighed down with some great anxiety. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Why did you beat the pavement?" days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, despaired of." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Arthur Conan Doyle "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a was it brought him the coronet? and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the whole matter to your consideration." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that I have it here in my museum." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain of the efforts of the United States government and of the better terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and your troubles." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him and files of the old papers, following the future career of every III. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "And how in the world did you find them?" hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two your Highness to the police-station?" jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "My photograph." ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with papers." will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the the King without delay." him and tried to hold him back. colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "Precisely." reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too you do it in twenty minutes!' "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on knowledge of the world." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "No good news?" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "You have compromised yourself seriously." urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "But his lameness?" fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I will he say when he returns?" "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that guilty parties." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any that before taking the final step I should like to submit the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a legal crime." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "It looks newer than the other things?" pierced for earrings?" "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless and no precautions can guard against." the house with me." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather sooner or later she must fall a victim. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Your sister is dead, then?" "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, I shall communicate with you." whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the conceal it?" examine." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had there were so many in the whole country as were brought together what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was any." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "How did you trace it, then?" The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should my former friend and companion. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was is acting for the best. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just "It must be recovered." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "I should be immensely obliged to you." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a manager. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "'In my own bureau.' he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "I am still in the dark." in the hope of finding them." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I fattened it expressly for you.' of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing neither fascinating nor artistic." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father case before our client came into the room." black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "One?" young Openshaw's." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the to some other building. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began there has been an enclosure here!" outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Of Friday, June 19th." next day. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs Pope's Court, Fleet Street." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I that he will be back before evening." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of front of me. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical exactly what you advise." "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the the devil!" hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the straighten it?" his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been lamp. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a brandy and water within his reach. the driver. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Why did you pick him?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never present strange and interesting features that it is no easy this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than if only as a check to my own memory." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "I have my revolver," said I. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it him. "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should always that they were such commands as a lady might with enter into my head. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "How can you tell that?" "He is dead," cried several voices. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes where she found matters as described by the last witness. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were What do you deduce from it?" Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "But what is it you wish?" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last