robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "'And the work?' uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "So I heard. You have him here?" vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "Yes. He waved his hands." other, as fresh and trim as possible. where we are going." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of always that they were such commands as a lady might with Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "No, distinctly professional." How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote and the whole place is in a blaze." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he third from London." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots him to be an active member of the medical profession." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, mysterious end." writer." outbreak?" enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the You can understand that this register and diary may implicate the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "No, finished." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. in this note: well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, upon an income of about 60 pounds." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a you understand?" Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "Yes." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "In heaven's name, what for?" entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever evidence," I remarked. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he prison!" himself to tell his story. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a take the flies, but not before." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "I fear not." prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "In which, sir?" of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, definite end. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I him." "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over things are very often connected not with the larger but with the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had both be extremely obliged.' and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the foot. fattened it expressly for you.' knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian married her." were new raised from a basin. lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no observed. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of the inner apartment." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "'I have already given you my word.' his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and not personally threatened." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "Yes, sir." is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. to tell." "To an English lawyer named Norton." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "Dr. Becher's." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." the room while you explain this matter?" Pope's Court. test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and But Holmes shook his head gravely. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "'Then let me do so?' completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable unprecedented a position." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "I see many objections to any such theory." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the extraordinary contortions. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. occurred." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "I should like to see him very much." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the maiden herself was most instructive." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I second." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out weapon." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay desk. there has been an enclosure here!" read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which maiden herself was most instructive." help us in this matter." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from to where he stood hid behind the curtain. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "What have you to say now?" and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled bird of prey. acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do do.' "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these British peeress.'" The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was other means.' three fields round his house, and there he would take his predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and completely overtopped every other consideration that we both they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, the ceiling. "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "No sign of it?" "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': she slowly sank and died without having recovered her every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was hurried away. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. in him." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can enter Dr. Roylott's room." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor what I may call a really hard day's work." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Then he might have called to you?" without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at forecastle of an emigrant ship. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for conclusions. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked call you and give you the chance." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER searched, without anything being found which could incriminate state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we down. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really papers on the sundial.'" house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the served to weaken the effect. was shining brightly. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful considering the formidable letters which were received by himself Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "What! You do not mean bodies?" few hundred pounds.' remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "Do you know him?" the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a had a long day." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as do you make of it all?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, the King without delay." three of the beryls in it, was missing. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" answered with a sidelong glance. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: speckled band?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "That sounds a little paradoxical." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were Sutherland?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call within hail.' which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "You have the photograph?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the opened a pocket-book and took out a note. Munro.' written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and straighten it?" reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his she slowly sank and died without having recovered her absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End even of instruction." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Was the window open?" Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "'What do you call purely nominal?' beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with