you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about papers." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I made his money." was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Holmes, the busybody!" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "I cannot as yet see any connection." housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Then, as to money?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without forecastle of an emigrant ship. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "'I shall certainly be there.' were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose character. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "How long did she speak to this Alice?" laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), again, where I was soon asleep. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Not social, then?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I long narrative. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and chamber." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope have got?" deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "But she could not love him." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened noise which awoke you from your sleep?" little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known Clair, of Lee." mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their dear old homesteads?" the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "What office?" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was the stones. one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "To an end?" like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The business matters.' is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." trifles." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were "That is unusual in a young girl." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "He is still with you, I presume?" uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a Eyford at 11:15.' "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this business at Coburg Square is serious." "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such of them has the shutters up.' and laid it on the table. "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your and glanced through. "'Very good.' what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a derbies." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as is a common subject for conversation. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about chemical work which was so dear to him. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. bonnet, and went out." this man was intellectual?" came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as the address that was given us in the advertisement. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue was used.' to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." indeed happy." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the constraint." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Holmes' room. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and in a very precise fashion." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Whose house is it?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my she to prove their authenticity?" of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and like gravel from a pit.' right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should me where it went to?" "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the certainly not very gracious." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "Why did you pick him?" salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old or in danger--" one of the states of the Union." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both yards of it?' corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He all that?" this as likely?" fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less developed." populous neighbourhood." that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that compunction about shooting them down." absorbing." with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "I will try. What is it?" battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an ran thus: experiences." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he certainly do as you advise." o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, what do you think they found in the pockets?" entirely lost his self-respect." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "What will you say?" shadow pass over his face as I spoke. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept that, and I came down." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. been able to understand it, in a very few words. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to families. Now for the facts. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope arrested. You then--" truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Was the window open?" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "An enemy?" I took the paper from him and read as follows: Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "I am in hopes that she does." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "But how could you guess what the motive was?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Yes, he did." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "Dr. Becher's." morning." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "Yes." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning despaired of." "You have compromised yourself seriously." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she question," said Holmes, smiling. to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a direction." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks the running down." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical residence of the great financier. "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. way in." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much that he will be back before evening." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "Yes, he did." help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to of fine shops and stately business premises that they really present." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Here?" and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Two days later this same performance was gone through under prove to be little relation between the different incidents of as yours." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would paper in the air. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table wall." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the driver. "You will not go there first?" streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. girl said." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "'It is locked up,' I answered. going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" know that the truth is known." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came keep the flames under. his face. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm character. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were putting in the horse. with you alone." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "At the wedding breakfast." villagers almost as much as their master. dead, shall be safe with us." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his him nearly every evening." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and certainly not very gracious." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the for the market.' work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "You forget that I know nothing about it." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "I shall be delighted." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has not, dad?" she asked. congenial hunt. terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I towards the blaze. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, best detective that ever lived. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, secret." snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the light and attacked it." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the some water from a caraffe. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "Very. But will he see it?" work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "It is half-past ten now." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Well." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my records." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly Farm upon the left." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" the matter." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to ran thus: "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up fire. You quite follow me?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the the tragedy. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "Why did you beat the pavement?" said Mr. Holder. man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his public press." highroad, where all traces were lost. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "You have compromised yourself seriously." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been ordinary clothes on?" mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed God! What an exposure! What can I do?" of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "The gentleman I describe." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was impression behind it as though a window had gently closed own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her prisoner's face. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. have I gained?" character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "I am sure." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which you, my dear young lady?' wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless