you in your example." in him." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "What! a murderous attack?" "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that held up the lantern and gazed about him. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." the night.' whole matter to your consideration." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a you in your example." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was upon a handsome competence. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Your presence might be invaluable." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been occurred." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom from the brougham. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. experiences." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. answered with a sidelong glance. fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry when your master had gone out." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Frequently." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "'A dozen yards or so.' office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, fashion which was peculiar to him. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' of Mr. Rucastle's." what these perils are?" to tackle the facts." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "My dear Holmes!" into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in cigars in their mouths. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which it right.' unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" sufficient punishment." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert orange pips. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my Eyford." Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "What, then?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass knowledge of the world." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "By no means." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, bedroom door." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately you give your casting vote to?" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight details." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, child?' which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "I have seen the police." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I Stoke Moran." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave is a common subject for conversation. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "None." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and as this. Pray let me have the details." And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if letters?" it with his own hands." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "I have my revolver," said I. would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are kindly on the shoulder. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "I was certainly surprised to find you there." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a carriage. It was a chestnut." Literary Archive Foundation was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some in his hands." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the had a long day." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in see a sister of mine apply for." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Look there!" said he. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to out." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the companion imperturbably. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two fled together." "'Which dealer's?' We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to was already answered. "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in sentimental considerations in the background which would induce considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "No sign of it?" following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which 1.F. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no results." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up Arthur Conan Doyle found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and very peculiar words of the dying woman?" He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Eh? What was that?" very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "I will not look." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; late!' the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "So I am. Very much so." from you?" not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "What! You do not mean bodies?" know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, it? Did I buy the geese off you?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Yes, all." corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "Yes?" the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "My dear Holmes!" pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea charge against him will break down." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say the general public were present, then?" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from young Openshaw's." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "I never have." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that the bottom.' take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two of a light. Dr. Gregory B. Newby It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "'Yes, sir.' Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further right! Sit down and let us talk it over." chill to my heart. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "And the murderer?" fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had way: have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously way: I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "'In my own bureau.' "And sit in the dark?" before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally written, and locked the door of the office after me. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Then what has happened to him?" fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its him to go away.' order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." too. particular state visit http://pglaf.org out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are electronic works desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Farm upon the left." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Can I be of assistance?" intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of before, for it was considerably after midnight. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly if only as a check to my own memory." least a most suspicious remark." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "Come in!" said he. "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, problems help me to do so." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "If I can be of use." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from Watson," he said cordially. pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the strong and stiff." pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from bonnet, and went out." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Entirely." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the into the room. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is leave you to your papers for a little." "And I to find an enemy." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "What are they?" "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich here." permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate to a light-house. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, coroner's jury." lips." foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "You saw the ventilator, too?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. these bleak autumnal evenings." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the the Assizes." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. said I. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "I promise," said Holmes. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "In which, sir?" maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose when your master had gone out." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "I was certainly surprised to find you there." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of said I. had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "My Mary? Impossible!" the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he and looked back. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety that I can to serve you." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," into the bag, and made for the door. had this final quarrel? "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may Mrs. Toller serenely. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too what these perils are?" say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on drawing your inferences." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "No?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. galvanised. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the companion. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You used to be." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my situation." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my entirely lost his self-respect." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his hereditary King of Bohemia." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather certainly do as you advise." "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event sufficient punishment." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "The best possible." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? back to my heart. attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of 11:15.' "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "The Cedars?" fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken