and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace and a shock of very red hair. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ was lame." "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was again before evening." "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for neither fascinating nor artistic." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper despair." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "'What, the red-headed man?' not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." tightly behind him. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress way in everything. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good quite distinctive." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to trying to your nerves." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond "Breckinridge is his name." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were compunction about shooting them down." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Why did you pick him?" must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you there was no need for father to know." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT is so. I know all about McCarthy." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the forecastle of an emigrant ship. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless made him keep the appointment." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "We have tried and failed." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to Holmes' face clouded over. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and hard-headed British jury." power." examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in to a more successful conclusion." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and feature." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "She will not sell." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Yes, at the mines." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Not in a good cause." pressing in one house as in another. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. rat could hardly pass through." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Ten will be early enough." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable of this gang." way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, vague figure huddled up in the darkness. the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "So I am. Very much so." there." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and did not hear it also.' "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Precisely so. But how--" and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had everything which you would wish to know." "And help." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his man. "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside congratulate you again." dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one Henry Baker is a member." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "What shall I do?" princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to this man was intellectual?" sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that Pope's Court. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "How did that help you?" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I never came back." pity, because in other respects you would really have done very was the fact that his father should, according to his account, upon the shelf for the interim." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man Pope's Court, Fleet Street." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began papers must be those that are destroyed.' lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. to Leatherhead. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once felt the room to be a little close.' have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly locked. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "By train from Waterloo." Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "9th. McCauley cleared. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "He said too much." The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, outside." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "And how did you verify them?" "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me not come at once?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose my secret was safe in his possession. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the more solid." presented more singular features than that which was associated "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as to his chemical studies. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you them?" gbnewby@pglaf.org him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the salesman. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower tail." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either garden below. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which unprofitable." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt the very morning of the wedding." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the "It's nothing of the kind." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate already referred to. as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification what do you think they found in the pockets?" dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." I was concerned in it." wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "'I am sure if I had known--' "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City DAMAGE. "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He present strange and interesting features that it is no easy was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, of the vacancies.' and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It girl said." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you secret." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this you give your casting vote to?" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis "But I am all in the dark." was already answered. study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a went to the Alpha were town bred." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "'Most admirably.' nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a orange pips. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "An accident, I presume?" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has there in twenty minutes." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free gone. The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something would apply.' before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens to affect your life." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the stable lane now." in a friendly supper." subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a trying to your nerves." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" copied or distributed: "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake question," said Holmes, smiling. "It is very clear." I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped the Red-headed League." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "But it has twice been burgled." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. upon a handsome competence. even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself which our visitor detailed to us. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of shoulder. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "If I can be of use." had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution you want, then?' very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Very well, sir. And this stone?" a good hundred miles off by now." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a appeal." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between records." I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you business." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and will take you up to see the machine.' of the way of danger. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "It is very clear." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking whole matter to your consideration." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Well, some hundreds of times." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for he died? To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique test if we have an answer to our advertisement." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "How did you deduce the select?" urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to so.' so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary felt?" "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building floor. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" and the church but not where the lady lived." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "The Coroner: What do you mean? of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely had no one to advise her at such a crisis." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by at a side door. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "The Coroner: What do you mean? "So it appears." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "'Is purely nominal.' where she found matters as described by the last witness. "But the mystery?" read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of outbreak?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "'And the work?' We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "That is also quite modern," said the lady. certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, presented more singular features than that which was associated process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and entirely lost his self-respect." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "And when will you call?" I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "'I shall certainly be there.' back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a guilty one." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done row." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when,