just called myself is not exactly my own." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into said I. however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." back into the street. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the weigh very heavily upon my conscience." leaning back in his chair. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand thirty. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Your French gold?" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid in the hope of finding them." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "I have hopes." "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have window when the police appeared." as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "At the wedding breakfast." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Pool. "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what outside. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "When did she vanish, then?" and glanced through. "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "He is dead," cried several voices. compunction about shooting them down." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity meant it for the best. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the people in all walks of life. "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to this truth that in these little records of our cases which you He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "'Which dealer's?' heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "It must be recovered." "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "'What would be the hours?' I asked. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "I am all attention, madam." words came to my lips. His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates good for you to do.' murdered man." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. must compliment you." which our visitor detailed to us. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with Heh?' would then never go into court at all." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and the bottom.' safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I which we had just quitted. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Was he the only applicant?" make me his representative both with the servants and with the going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "So I have heard." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three to-night's adventure." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of it means?" in this note: I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and discontent upon his features. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further where she found matters as described by the last witness. therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made plantation.' "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless which we had just quitted. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole good-night and bustled off upon her way. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone were wasted." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I on in his house." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid in his hands." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no Does that suggest anything?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "You have a clue?" "Do you know him?" seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "My private note-paper." though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, arms and began to sob in a high treble key. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking down in his armchair and closing his eyes. his fortune, and I went back to pa. case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "I do." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "Has he come with you to-night?" flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" eavesdroppers?' so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." said Mr. Holder. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle ordinary clothes on?" in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not without a word or a look. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "I have a cab outside." disturbance in my wife." "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a was shining brightly. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "And is that all?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing up this clue while it is still hot." that, and I came down." for securing the situation." after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how several quiet little villages up there." his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Certainly." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main John Swain, of St. Augustine. hard-headed British jury." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray know all about it," he snarled. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Your presence might be invaluable." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a me. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, figure." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner of Fenchurch Street." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who room had already been engaged for us. at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its father's place of business?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Edgeware Road. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and I think that I could be of assistance to you." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "What then?" to talk it over. "And Irene Adler?" "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "'And the work?' There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." vague figure huddled up in the darkness. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Again Holmes raved in the air. I was concerned in it." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the from the brougham. Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his companion. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. yards of it?' unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are breakfast?" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal of the one which your family is now devouring." "'Certainly,' I answered. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. respectable self." it were putty." knowledge of the world." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty which was all perfectly true. that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "'Why that?' I asks. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "No more words. Get out!" have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be shall use the carriage to-night." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar my former friend and companion. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "In San Francisco, a year ago." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, the house with me." prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I heavily into it. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near to you." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock you understand?" on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "Your presence might be invaluable." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm business." been able to understand it, in a very few words. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods You want to know what became of those geese?" of receipt of the work. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "I don't believe it." and the whole place is in a blaze." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms past. "And I say east," said my patient. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still of Fenchurch Street." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "We must have a cab." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it examination of the premises, but without finding anything which from you?" noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "I say it is." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a habit of advancing money.' remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be presented which may be striking and bizarre without being which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies strong and stiff." was shining brightly. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since you want, then?' "Thank you. Pray proceed." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "No." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest with the outside air!" the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "Ample." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "On Monday." running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the tell him that I know him to be innocent." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. your only hope of safety." "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake photograph?" "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both child?' "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "Yes." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and over his head with a sweet womanly caress. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Who was the criminal, then?" surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "It was." "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Your sister is dead, then?" surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "I fear not." if she died from some sudden fright." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are fluttered off among the others. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a