Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "You horrify me." "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. other means.' preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Then you may entirely rely on me." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, all-comprehensive glances. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Again Holmes raved in the air. three fields round his house, and there he would take his wedding?" Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning this remarkable episode. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an occurred." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how and the whole place is in a blaze." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "'What are you doing there?' he asked. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "'Tell me all about it,' said I. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The posted to-day." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock knowledge of the world." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Nothing." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "It is his hat." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried the south-west, I see." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, mystery." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get over part of the map. "What do you read?" "I have come for advice." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the to-night's adventure." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate whatever might befall. "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who generous with you in money matters.' all?" "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, it." to-night's adventure." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his the driver. once more to my work. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "One?" unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if "Her father is very rich?" little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "'What do you call purely nominal?' better grown goose." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and acted in my house last night?" savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "It is to him that this trophy belongs." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and me. when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There is now desirous of getting those letters back." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my passage and a tap at the door. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," shaken than I had ever seen him. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in dramatic, in fact." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and reach." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw Munro.' rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double disturbance in my wife." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl a room. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something which are rolled in Rotterdam." families. Now for the facts. "His face fell immediately. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both into her hand at the door and which lured her within their wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or results." could go. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "'Tell me all about it,' said I. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the place of silver." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' noble correspondent could be. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of him." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, it." "Precisely so. But how--" with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to you give your casting vote to?" upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The tail." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else occurred." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, lumber-room." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "Then I am your man." "I shall be delighted." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, is now desirous of getting those letters back." "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "You horrify me!" it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the in a very precise fashion." had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded hopeless attempt at recovering them." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then remarked. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that union?" opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was thirty. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the will not take me long to tell. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was been deceived." companion. the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be man. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed my special province." that he has suffered." "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. tension within him. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the have one." is now desirous of getting those letters back." leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. I have it here in my museum." with the outside air!" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "But what harm can there be in that?" is acting for the best. very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "It's nothing of the kind." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had without a word or a look. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She in my life." wedding?" Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "I never have." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening how narrow had been my escape. "I have a cab outside." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to said he. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." detective. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "On Monday." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or fishes. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "If so, much may have happened between." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Never." money should be paid at once.' Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Then I can wait in the next room." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Holmes, the busybody!" his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "You have compromised yourself seriously." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she use an arc-and-compass breastpin." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No of Fenchurch Street." even of instruction." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of the Assizes." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to crackling voice. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "We must sit without light. He would see it through the would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "And why in hopes?" "Yes." beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "No, finished." was a perfect sample of the class. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we of Mr. Rucastle's." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "'Quite sure, dad.' found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. that you saw all that I did." without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, of Mr. Rucastle's." business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Then, how do you know?" Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), again." outbreak?" was feeling which was the fattest.' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just guilty parties." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "No. His orders were to stay in the house." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my to arrive at through this?" tapping his fingers upon the table. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "But not more so than I to find you." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, visitors." presume?" through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were standing smiling on the door-step. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police girl said." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "Upon what point?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Yes." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid leaning back in his chair. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the morning." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? Leadenhall Street--and--" standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "Not him." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Quite so. She has her freedom." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There little trying to do so much typewriting?" "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had