pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all shag which I had seen upon the previous night. the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an and your relations to her." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up be.' and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, few hundred pounds.' Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes sofa. This way, please!" would apply.' swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." details." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for with you alone." was a perfect sample of the class. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "Very much so." and put his glass in his pocket. you." what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was Chief Executive and Director anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper so far?" that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a chill to my heart. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "But your client--" it." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to used to be." going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "You are all wrong." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, lamp in his hand. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "9th. McCauley cleared. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen sofa. This way, please!" of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "And why?" of." "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Very well, sir. And this stone?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are room?" "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little London for the present?" the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his long narrative. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should village inn over there?" 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "I think that it is very probable." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. of." "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "Pray be precise as to details," said he. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the will not take me long to tell. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Was the window open?" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "Then, as to money?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked himself to tell his story. father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing country, and eventually married, without anyone having a His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "'Certainly not.' Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "Where is it, then?" morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "But you would not advise me to refuse?" a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "'Oh, no.' once more to my work. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "What will you say?" tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying because she had spent so short a time in this country that she indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the meant." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole have established a very serious case against the son of the "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall may have an influence upon European history." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "And from a noble client?" get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of pierced for earrings?" "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, careless servant girl?" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock what is your own theory as to what took place?" possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to instituted." "My photograph." see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I me have 200 pounds?' and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others weapon." "Not in the least." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "I fear not." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the driver. "But what harm can there be in that?" off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He even of instruction." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "Seven!" I answered. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of you?" noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just for securing the situation." "What?" morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." tell me that you intended to go into harness." never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "When did she vanish, then?" "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in never came back." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, when you have done it." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he awkward doing business with an alias." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with fashion which was peculiar to him. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "I will, Miss Turner." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable the King without delay." are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" became a certainty. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." goes." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally It was close upon four before the door opened, and a would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying this as likely?" "Why? What do you mean?" to have that photograph." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous on in his house." "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Does that suggest anything?" shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few disturbance in my wife." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. politicians who had been sent down from the North. have an American origin." "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks do you make of it all?" were new raised from a basin. He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She death." "And how?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the cup of tea. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to read it out to me." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our disturbance in my wife." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was wedding?" which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must the so-precious time, but come!' towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the McCarthy's innocence. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and fait accompli?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Ah!" think you a quite exceptional woman." unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The character. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey nothing with him." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "'And what are they worth?' I asked. and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." and wait." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "You did not overhear what they said?" a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of never to learn it at all." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It IS convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had it." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that your most interesting statement." man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "One horse?" interjected Holmes. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would to me. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's For additional contact information: together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people I. outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "And you thought he was pulled back?" is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. in his power. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are the Red-headed League." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is standing smiling on the door-step. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, undoubtedly my uncle's." he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "And you can do nothing until then?" "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely subject to the trademark license, especially commercial dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "And for present expenses?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover envelope. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Very truly yours, take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not bled considerably." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." and effective." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the legal crime." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. redistribution. daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our to me. I approached. "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Then I do not see the point." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not carpenter." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "Perhaps we may make them less so." John Swain, of St. Augustine. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I am all attention, madam." transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that sparkled upon his finger. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "Yes, certainly." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Then I am your man." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you Sutherland. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet what I may call a really hard day's work." shoulder; "he's all right." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man a good hundred miles off by now." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a not come at once?" extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of