after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Who by?" Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes and looked back. turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to next day. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such your bag." "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been that you wished to speak to me?' McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and ourselves in the office." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass once more. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "And why in hopes?" corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle the tragedy. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to as this. Pray let me have the details." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." was already answered. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." to some other building. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to together. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "A call for help, you thought?" "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "It came here." "Here?" considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "Upon what point?" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "I never have." and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to article?" which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all October 9, 1890. Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but hurried away. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table this truth that in these little records of our cases which you robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate not as remarkable as your advertisement." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "Pray let us have it, for all that." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "'In my own bureau.' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, cup of tea. cheerful." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "I should wish to." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout garden below. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and speckled band?" you understand?" has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his 1.F. yards of it?' the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were habit of advancing money.' remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, four million human beings all jostling each other within the conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited deduce something from that?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Is he quiet?" "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, call for protection in the marriage market, for the present Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save made him keep the appointment." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in The events in question occurred in the early days of my direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock awaited us upon the table. coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the these bleak autumnal evenings." "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom me upon any point which I do not make clear." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, least a most suspicious remark." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case hardly wander." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Whose house is it?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess the little opening for the ventilator is." "Why did you beat the pavement?" have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position coat-tails." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. one's self under obligations.' story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. my room." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "Holmes, the busybody!" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I the roots. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** there has been an enclosure here!" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong and prosperity to your house. Good-night." that you can jump it.' "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by fishes. gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "How about poison?" should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "I have seen the police." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer as noiselessly as she had come. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker matter." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of very morning of my second wedding." the very morning of the wedding." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "On the contrary, this is the right side." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know this unhappy family?" received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with chance." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done not come at once?" There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a me. You must get home instantly and act." his wife has ceased to love him." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and not, dad?" she asked. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have photograph a cabinet?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be room had already been engaged for us. for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for is four-and-twenty." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and vault. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Yes." "But it has twice been burgled." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled pressing in one house as in another. without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There *** START: FULL LICENSE *** been shamefully used." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." your Highness to the police-station?" stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Well." very old mansion. "Why, what do you mean?" He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came woman." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss assist you in forming an opinion." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods hurried by. "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" fluttered off among the others. through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" electronic works Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. if I call to-morrow?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. fire. You quite follow me?" week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "Your presence might be invaluable." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' sake, don't!" happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I am armed." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we from the brougham. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared to some other building. round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Absolutely?" was feeling which was the fattest.' robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "She will not sell." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a at my own good fortune. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the charge against him will break down." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord and the whole place is in a blaze." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an searched, without anything being found which could incriminate paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project direction." seem to you to be relevant or not." I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, quite distinctive." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. window when the police appeared." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "I say that I have solved it." 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "'You cannot say what it was?' neither fascinating nor artistic." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either there has been an enclosure here!" should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "I answered that I had not. Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this very old mansion. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "I cannot think." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an "Precisely." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "And Irene Adler?" remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare been lifted and conveyed somewhere." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found him. something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking to where he stood hid behind the curtain. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you at my own good fortune. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of several quiet little villages up there." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "Of Friday, June 19th." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "But his left-handedness." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were Clair, of Lee." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the train.' carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It way in everything. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically a monotonous occupation." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "There is the writing." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." when you have done it." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking an introduction to him?" "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "You horrify me." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass that threaten you." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and assist you in forming an opinion." "My Mary? Impossible!"