my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: the house with me." down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. face and glided from the room. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Get out!" said he. jewels which you have stolen?' as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient allusion to a rat. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a I have it here in my museum." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who place of silver." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "Then the page we have seen--" would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? obstinate." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." and I shall be with you presently." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him front of me. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; come either from the window or the door. My attention was "She walked into the breakfast-room." new duties?' for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had about. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose already been minutely examined." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his matter." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think strange features which were associated with the two crimes which The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and lamp in his hand. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your sound at heart." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own your Highness to the police-station?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "And is that all?" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. where we are going." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban indeed which he could not unravel. instincts rose up against that laugh. with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the careless servant girl?" served to weaken the effect. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your details." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we and the colonel ushered me in. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "What!" he roared. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue narrative." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that Miss Holder?" Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste outside. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was walking." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making thin legs towards the fire. stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "Witness: Nothing definite. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "But what is it you wish?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Very murderous indeed." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now man. "Certainly." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "That is easily got." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Never." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "You are hungry," I remarked. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, http://www.gutenberg.net He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to showing my impatience. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not success. chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few lectures into a series of tales." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon excitement. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. character. anything to do with the matter?" recall any case within my experience which looked at the first fat-encircled eyes. skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the him!" I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Well, it is a possible supposition." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. were wasted." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in felt the room to be a little close.' "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "I should be immensely obliged to you." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was in my life." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "How often?" Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." writer." "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some she slowly sank and died without having recovered her shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "I saw her in conversation with her maid." foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very as noiselessly as she had come. "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting fait accompli?" here and I will read it to you: steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me without a word or a look. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "Awake, Watson?" he asked. beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. at my own good fortune. fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "'I shall certainly be there.' Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "Nor running a chance of arrest?" that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. indeed happy." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" triumphant cloud from his cigarette. for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." even so self-evident a thing as that." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "And what then?" "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." closing the door. acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out gone. at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that things are very often connected not with the larger but with the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his we went to search for him, face downward in a little a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me correct than the official force." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "And sit in the dark?" male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "'Where to?' "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is and wait." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "I think that it is very probable." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "No, I had a dozen." at my remark. beg that you will break it off." "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "You know me, then?" "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I Where does the thing come from?' "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I future lives." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Witness: I must still refuse. "But his left-handedness." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Yes?" that he will be back before evening." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a developed." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something hurried by. "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said examine." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "How are you getting on?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun any." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, delighted to hear it," he said. "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! dead, shall be safe with us." "And what did you see?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable held up the lantern and gazed about him. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without advice." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." dates and names. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a one's self under obligations.' Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain relation between them, and what the object of his repeated what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Well, it is a possible supposition." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Yes." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the once more for Briony Lodge. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the examination of the premises, but without finding anything which Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, public press." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." went to the Alpha were town bred." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Sutherland?" leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very 11:15.' unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "In the cells." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Project Gutenberg-tm works. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside Pope's Court. parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "He slept on the premises." who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the coronet at all injured?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent in the hope of finding them." "Ample." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. the running down." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few awaited us upon the table. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to anything to do with the matter?" Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as bird I ate is country bred." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. go back?" facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. that threaten you." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for intrusion of other matters." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "But you would not advise me to refuse?" not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as weapon." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the heavily into it. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "But how?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" really the only notable feature about the thing." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the to his chemical studies. broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to upon the white wrist. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." strode off upon his way. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "'And the work?' solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his