might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case attention." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's with her." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save you." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' point our research must commence, and we will begin it by sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to For additional contact information: "In what way?" asked Holmes. you, my dear young lady?' "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" the armchair which I pushed forward for him. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' enough to aid us in our search." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "You heard nothing yourself last night?" matter." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said him." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened strange features which were associated with the two crimes which in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the distinguish the words: daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church to a light-house. villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid London for the present?" photograph?" "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can gone. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one The note was undated, and without either signature or address. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." over part of the map. "What do you read?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in call for protection in the marriage market, for the present light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and at home. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an examine." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" ways including including checks, online payments and credit card brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Well." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the ourselves in the office." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not himself. "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them and the church but not where the lady lived." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I am about to be married." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my train.' devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on but preventing her from injuring another. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "What is it, then--a fire?" Serpentine Avenue. What do you deduce from it?" 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "I have come for advice." and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "That sounds a little paradoxical." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been the bed, and you in that chair." "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It intrusion of other matters." forbidden door. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and his face. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. this unhappy family?" Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "But of what society?" "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "Never to return." really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's back to my heart. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "What are they?" through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a ventilator." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "You have it, sir, just as it happened." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than McCarthy." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "My Mary? Impossible!" "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "The gentleman I describe." unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire society." for the market.' it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing I am not easy in my mind about them." feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads prove to be little relation between the different incidents of Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: could not account in any way for the presence of the missing Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug sooner or later she must fall a victim. compunction about shooting them down." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was soul! here is her carriage at the door." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, throat." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "But she will refuse." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "But you can know nothing of this?" remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave system of imprisonment?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, village inn over there?" sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is was a lad." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "I answered that I had not. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "I never have." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." quick march!" better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, arrangements." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Very truly yours, quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, charged with?" As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured Where does the thing come from?' brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' light and attacked it." was already answered. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking a monotonous occupation." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned to-night?' "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your nonsense.' "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we again, where I was soon asleep. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was taking in every detail of the apartment. "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her round with crates and massive boxes. did not hear it also.' prison!" putting in the horse. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" never to learn it at all." triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "'Never,' said I. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Were they all fastened this morning?" once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "No." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we once more for Briony Lodge. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may an introduction to him?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I derbies." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the this unhappy family?" "I warn you that they are very incomplete." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain village inn over there?" delirious. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'Most admirably.' upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "And how did he make his money?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. was lame." "I will, Miss Turner." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "'There is a drive, then?' silent! Oh, he will be silent!' silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "'Where to?' hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, spark where all is dark to me." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At soul! here is her carriage at the door." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "I fear not." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. have one." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and is acting for the best. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch redistribution. "Yes." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he to surprise her." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon appointment with me for six o'clock?" from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. the child." "10th. John Swain cleared. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Yes, there are nearly always some there." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "A confidential servant?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "I assure you that I am in your hands." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided several quiet little villages up there." "Deserted you?" families. Now for the facts. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the is," said he presently: hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence there is a decided draught." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was not as remarkable as your advertisement." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the later, upon the night of May 2nd." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend in this note: mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it Literary Archive Foundation he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Entirely." appointment with me for six o'clock?" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with invisible to me," I remarked. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. despaired of." the house with me." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "This photograph!" waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of of the efforts of the United States government and of the better caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which points to suicide?" have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you weighed down with some great anxiety. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added Pope's Court. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "We must have a cab." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I exactly what you advise." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. together. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has breakfast?" Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest along the entire front of the house, with three long windows ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more if I call to-morrow?" as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's