agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Here?" freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me But Holmes shook his head gravely. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm more solid." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into seven miles from Eyford Station.' his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not present." article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his unprofitable." to-night's adventure." putting in the horse. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of strode off upon his way. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid enter Dr. Roylott's room." investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe husband's writing, madam." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "But what is it you wish?" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion had a long day." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few about. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and four million human beings all jostling each other within the Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "Then I am your man." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for him nearly every evening." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in was it brought him the coronet? "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Ha! you find it so?" as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Were they all fastened this morning?" bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Can I be of assistance?" suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Then I can wait in the next room." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "'Quite sure, dad.' back into the street. "What are they?" "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; vanished into the darkness. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A me have 200 pounds?' liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' 11:15.' And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" advice." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their three fields round his house, and there he would take his "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the The summons was a brief and urgent one. I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "I am following you closely," I answered. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "By no means." should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face article?" again before evening." corner of the building. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between key of the affair now." as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "What then?" was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, Farm upon the left." to-night's adventure." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Then I shall certainly come." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Seven!" I answered. corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during answered with a sidelong glance. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a what these perils are?" coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Pray let us have it, for all that." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. not, dad?" she asked. year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "'I am sure if I had known--' nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, to you." Holmes' face clouded over. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed three of the beryls in it, was missing. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, despaired of." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." children over to America with him, so that I found myself without him." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "No, finished." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "It's nothing of the kind." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips possible that we could bring him back to her? "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "He is still with you, I presume?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "Yes." visitors." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and against a man in the prime of life?" "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Where to?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence point in the dark hollow of his hand. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of events, Mr. Windibank!" assist you in forming an opinion." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this me where it went to?" Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, were wasted." time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I just called myself is not exactly my own." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. where we are going." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes easy-going way." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Ah!" "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better that the gas is not laid on in his house?" disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "'No, I know no one in these parts.' say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can the coronet in his hands?" "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "'There is a drive, then?' that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "In heaven's name, what for?" "Well, some hundreds of times." filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "The decline of his fortunes, then?" still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" very peculiar words of the dying woman?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no strength in the others." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that neither fascinating nor artistic." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "Who by?" "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "You horrify me!" "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "I will get her to show me." four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing matter over." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's in his hands." such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." that?' became a certainty. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not to go into your room and bar your shutters?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to bore every mark of being an average commonplace British him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank very peculiar words of the dying woman?" King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "What will you say?" "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the new duties?' where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, man. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." little trying to do so much typewriting?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, had picked up in the wood. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully test if we have an answer to our advertisement." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both character. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had money should be paid at once.' determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. south, for the country is more deserted there." know what is wrong with it.' excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "I cannot imagine." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Nothing." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "No. What a strange idea!" it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and both be extremely obliged.' lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the in the dead of the night?' The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Yes, certainly." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, himself to hunt down. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by your only hope of safety." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in in a very precise fashion." grasp, he hurried from the room. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop presented which may be striking and bizarre without being never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the matter." derbies." Surrey." individual and becomes the badge of a society." "I have hopes." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but waste of energy." true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "You know me, then?" remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's to have that photograph." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "It certainly sounds feasible." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "He is still with you, I presume?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "'Oh, no.' she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "There are none." province." examine." tear off another piece?' grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not astonishment. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "There is the writing." foot. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit started for the Temple to see my husband. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope horse could go." "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings you?" about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "It missed him, then?" fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Where, then, is my wife?" "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "I will do it." the bottom.' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are assist you in forming an opinion." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small