as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the the iron safe, which he closed upon it. multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had dates and names. despair." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different thin legs towards the fire. prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Come in!" said Holmes. "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the be. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "When did she vanish, then?" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be seen the man in the road." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." for securing the situation." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "I think it very unlikely." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was time." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Yes." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our went to the Alpha were town bred." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she written, and locked the door of the office after me. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." the roots. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers burst out into a roar of laughter. the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "It is his hat." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "How on earth--" us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and problems help me to do so." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had success. constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, affair. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. speckled band?" and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you of them has the shutters up.' cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and enter Dr. Roylott's room." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. But Holmes shook his head gravely. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was question," said Holmes, smiling. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "That is easily got." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "To an English lawyer named Norton." "I shall be delighted." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in joking. Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "To an end?" "Your sister is dead, then?" to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, just called myself is not exactly my own." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "What office?" "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Where is it, then?" "'What are you doing there?' he asked. begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "And how have you succeeded?" considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no bearing upon the case." "I beg pardon." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let the south-west, I see." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little is a common subject for conversation. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. house for five minutes.' and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better true." me." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand head. So long, then!" my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. existence." Sutherland. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words never to learn it at all." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we as noiselessly as she had come. "Where, then, is my wife?" hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to walking." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Thank you. Pray proceed." appointment with me for six o'clock?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "My last client of the sort was a king." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only you in your example." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Pray be precise as to details," said he. have had none more fantastic than this." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "We have tried and failed." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Who was the criminal, then?" "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "Have you it here?" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "What are they?" would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "I have seen the police." had died away into the silence from which it rose. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his the warnings." Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother I nodded to show that I had heard. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "The vanishing of the lady." long narrative. correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the sake, don't!" out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was Pool. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were on in his house." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the very old mansion. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. The King stared at him in amazement. himself in a perplexing position. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Nothing." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell this remarkable episode. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** true." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It events, Mr. Windibank!" pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "If so, much may have happened between." contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "'What, the red-headed man?' the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." once more for Briony Lodge. "Your presence might be invaluable." true." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very to-night?" I asked. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about the best of training." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," enter Dr. Roylott's room." laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "You will not go there first?" enter into my head. trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I situation." "'A dozen yards or so.' "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start Holmes. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "'Certainly not.' like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "Bought." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "'Ample.' swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good was it brought him the coronet? get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "But she could not love him." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand Eyford at 11:15.' fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" heavy and sharp instrument." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you again on its way. works. See paragraph 1.E below. you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or the King without delay." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life matter over." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any yourselves in at night?" he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "In which, sir?" depend upon your compliance." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "The landlord of the Alpha." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'A dozen yards or so.' word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some Clair, of Lee." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Not social, then?" quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down arms and began to sob in a high treble key. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he certainly not very gracious." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "By no means." the devil!" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "If I can be of use." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens the bottom.' "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "None." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." imbecility!" he cried. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as tail." you in your example." "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was there!' him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third are, and they are waiting for us." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird is so. I know all about McCarthy." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," had this final quarrel? why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "'Then let me do so?' devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him been with you?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a province." but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that It may be so in this case, also." "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "The murder was done with it." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. fear." that I am arrested." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted upon the shelf for the interim." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp south, for the country is more deserted there." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Then I shall certainly come." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no