it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in License. You must require such a user to return or Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "'It is locked up,' I answered. "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his question you as to those details which seem to me to be most Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "What then?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "He is still with you, I presume?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point McCarthy." you understand?" A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared these bleak autumnal evenings." green of the new foliage. man. I know him from the photograph." could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "And how in the world did you find them?" be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of you found me to-night--and running through the front room she already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in think that any burglar could have done. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was whether it answered to the description of any of their time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from is now desirous of getting those letters back." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "Have you her photograph?" girl said." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to ourselves in the office." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in then?" imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "He is dead," cried several voices. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "At half-wages, in fact." your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "'Where could I find him?' weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as silent! Oh, he will be silent!' shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, should be so warm over such a trifle." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. be.' performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "Witness: It was. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "Upon what point?" look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in the house with me." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, said he, "my real name is James Ryder." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not to-night's adventure." in darkness. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her allusion to a rat. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "But I have heard all that you have heard." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not opened a pocket-book and took out a note. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature to where he stood hid behind the curtain. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "'In my own bureau.' should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of good for you to do.' at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the how narrow had been my escape. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it in a friendly supper." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the "Yes." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a shall not find me ungrateful." every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the question," said Holmes, smiling. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "No good news?" less than 26s. 4d. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you your room." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "'And what salary do you ask?' vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in girl said." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' my special province." just ask you whether you had heard it.' labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "It is possible." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece least a fellow-countryman. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "My photograph." details." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my one else, I think." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with http://gutenberg.net/license). I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "Yes, there are nearly always some there." blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "I think it very unlikely." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some then?" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "'What do you call purely nominal?' predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "I am sure." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." drawing your inferences." Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. have accepted such a situation. severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "What shall I do?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the views." two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "9th. McCauley cleared. cigar and let me expound." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Has he come with you to-night?" "Well." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but go back?" fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and forecastle of an emigrant ship. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass will he say when he returns?" walking." several quiet little villages up there." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There strange features which were associated with the two crimes which go--none." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "You know me, then?" sparkled upon his finger. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, passage and a tap at the door. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who useful material for showing traces. The double line a little before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "I shall be delighted." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his good for you to do.' very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the Red-headed League." "Will you go?" however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, like that before?" there in twenty minutes." I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." official police." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were works. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "And how?" things are very often connected not with the larger but with the detained." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. amused." bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call compunction about shooting them down." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Of what?" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "But you have hopes?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "Awake, Watson?" he asked. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the behind me. "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "Upon what point?" "Yes, all." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "You horrify me!" "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "It looks newer than the other things?" your billet.' "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the chambers. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to developed." "Yes." touch that coronet?' "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "'Where to?' Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon fled together." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Was the window open?" "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "'And the work?' the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "How often?" "And help." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Yes." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "'Then let me do so?' We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. asked. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "'What, the red-headed man?' clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the amused." wanted for ourselves." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "And help." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came father's place of business?" found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, certainly not very gracious." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "No, my brougham is waiting." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now simple cases which are so extremely difficult." gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. empty. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. to that open window." of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? tail." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind said he. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "I would give my fortune to have them back." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with your bag." way in everything. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." to some other building. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and people don't know." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness.