his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the than was visible to me." "And what did you learn from him?" together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "Of what day?" refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest asked. basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest face and glided from the room. Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "'What, the red-headed man?' "Nothing." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the running down." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the as yours." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without laugh and put his lips to my ear. of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father stammered. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more meant." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. distinguish the words: sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "We have tried and failed." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing highroad, where all traces were lost. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of breakfast and whispered something to her husband. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Won't it ring?" however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the present." father's young wife. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the gone. if only as a check to my own memory." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight charged with?" Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, the salesman. with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as Count Von Kramm." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything which we had just quitted. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks prove to be little relation between the different incidents of colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford III. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." "What steps will you take?" I asked. "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was points to suicide?" I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "I have hopes." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in meant it for the best. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "'I have heard so.' gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey States. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these golden eyeglasses. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the 'please.'" "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' God! What an exposure! What can I do?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it down from London to inquire more deeply into it." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the of receipt of the work. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "'What would be the hours?' I asked. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too prove to be little relation between the different incidents of dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its breakfast." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off night.' said he. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having "Yes." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I see many objections to any such theory." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the house for five minutes.' will take you up to see the machine.' "It is solved." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the just called myself is not exactly my own." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: companion. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his some terrible trap for her." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "'Yes, I promise.' "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid easy-going way." three of the beryls in it, was missing. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must there were so many in the whole country as were brought together inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Watson," he said cordially. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes envelope. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to that he has suffered." stalked out of the room. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out following enigmatical notices: Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is him to be an active member of the medical profession." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that that he will be back before evening." to miss it." case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. you." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, "Oh, fresh and glossy." your co-operation." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, that before taking the final step I should like to submit the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a introspective fashion. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "But you can know nothing of this?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of side. a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the his face. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons see me here to avoid scandal." other, as fresh and trim as possible. of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" entirely devoid of interest." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "How did you trace it, then?" might have a private word with us. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to habit of advancing money.' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it the morning and make my own way in the world.' his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker ago." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook fuss that is made over them." sufficient punishment." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for way in." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and one's self under obligations.' drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "There is the writing." unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel think that any burglar could have done. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through have not had my rubber." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, time." mystery!" desk. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in was already answered. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated woman." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular shoulder; "he's all right." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "None." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in Leadenhall Street--and--" "But you can know nothing of this?" in this note: Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out strode off upon his way. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a society." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let could not have written that. It is the German who is so upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "I warn you that they are very incomplete." Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "To an end?" "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Was she in good spirits?" tear off another piece?' observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a to-morrow." "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Nearly eleven." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from 'I should be able to look after that for you.' every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob breakfast." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, how narrow had been my escape. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "And your father? Did you tell him?" this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "And your mother is alive?" "Pray do so." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the evidence," I remarked. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "Oh, yes, easily." "That is possible." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' there!' "But we can't all be." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three clang of the bell. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and and a shock of very red hair. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all in his power. why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; means taking possession of that which another person has a prior overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" behind me. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some chair. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "I am to be neutral?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Very. But will he see it?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, was it brought him the coronet? wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water himself in a perplexing position. was a perfect sample of the class. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with so.' window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your the Friday. Was it to be in church?" thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "The King of Scandinavia." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "No." you for a few hours?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, business at Coburg Square is serious." possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "And Irene Adler?" am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest this remarkable episode. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as