this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "Yes, certainly." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked of the way of danger. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of be.' were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. national property. I was determined that the law should have its now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "But his lameness?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him Leave Paddington by the 11:15." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old is," said he presently: somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Perhaps we may make them less so." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Not him." "None." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work out." continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no get the tickets." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "Have you her photograph?" tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he events than those which have happened in my own family." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative to where he stood hid behind the curtain. listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." DISSOLVED. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the upon the white wrist. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped about. surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit the south-west, I see." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, tension within him. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "By train from Waterloo." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon behind me. directly by questioning you." he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the been shamefully used." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was lips." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice business." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. http://www.gutenberg.net must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "None." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a fasten all the windows?" "But what will you do?" India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Well, some hundreds of times." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." may never be exposed to such a temptation." moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "What! Had he lost his wife?" the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, to me. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal letters?" it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had way in everything. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" towards the blaze. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. weapon." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of your billet.' your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and you?' values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and said I. "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I present." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security remarked. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the against a man in the prime of life?" like that before?" state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Then you may be so with me." "Yes." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which leave you to your papers for a little." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Two days later this same performance was gone through under long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few confronted him. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to constraint." once more to my work. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Pray do so." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, maiden herself was most instructive." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop a good hundred miles off by now." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the miles off. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "What office?" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "A client, then?" drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "How did that help you?" "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "'And what salary do you ask?' which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "He said that you could solve anything." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a to arrive at through this?" relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and have established a very serious case against the son of the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To was it brought him the coronet? "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, any little problem which you may submit to me." a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "'What then?' I asked. turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of words came to my lips. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "But his lameness?" astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two and looked back. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "No, my brougham is waiting." "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo ways of our fellow-men." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "On Monday." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some you in your example." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he our word." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "Ah, but I was recommended to you." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "He might." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at answered with a sidelong glance. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "Has he come with you to-night?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance promised to bring home. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential window when the police appeared." is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of dramatic, in fact." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "I have a cab outside." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as has little to do with my story." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull colonel looking down at me. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "He is dead," cried several voices. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "Your presence might be invaluable." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was will he say when he returns?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears will he say when he returns?" value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "He slept on the premises." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over him to be an active member of the medical profession." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in recall any case within my experience which looked at the first laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Yes." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. was not a bird to be seen there. power." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea open." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "Your presence might be invaluable." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Is he quiet?" bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but strode off upon his way. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small sofa. This way, please!" offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "What have you done?" asked Holmes. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "VIOLET HUNTER." "But I am all in the dark." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "In the cells." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project quick march!" his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point was feeling which was the fattest.' it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should said he. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the of." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and to some other building. "None." until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare see a sister of mine apply for." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless at a side door. exactly what you advise." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' approach us with offers to donate. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found said he. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "Yes." in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though said Mr. Holder. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must nothing with him." you, my dear young lady?' over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. joking. thought that she would have been so carried away." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was and the colonel ushered me in. of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "And how in the world did you find them?" "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been the iron safe, which he closed upon it. smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Nearly eleven." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "I cannot as yet see any connection." way in everything. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped trying to your nerves." felt?" people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers the Assizes." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a know that the truth is known." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Yes, it was twisted." course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! not, dad?" she asked. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Yes." Foundation "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness likely to be some crony of the landlady's." awaited us upon the table. came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "What can you not understand?" I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "Murdered?" "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us even so self-evident a thing as that." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better might have a private word with us. I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it