too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Pray continue your narrative." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him could go. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Nothing." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am learned something! Where are the gems?" some water from a caraffe. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I my little problems." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "I should wish to." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Then I do not see the point." "Very. But will he see it?" The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly call it cruel." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was keenly on my guard against him. slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "Yes." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic of Mr. Rucastle's." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the other lovers by making love himself." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your burst into a hearty fit of laughter. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "But it has twice been burgled." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and brain must have something in it." how narrow had been my escape. and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "Then what has happened to him?" What do you deduce from it?" a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer delirious. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes the salesman. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his are, I think, all that we need." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he relief. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I power." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, burst into a hearty fit of laughter. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Has he come with you to-night?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "In heaven's name, what for?" appointment with me for six o'clock?" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil who was a member of your goose club." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "The Coroner: What do you mean? connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." closing the door. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, would apply.' more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I records." there." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. call it cruel." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, his wife has ceased to love him." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that experiences." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. had picked up in the wood. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "I know where it is." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic DAMAGE. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a had no one to advise her at such a crisis." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. bears upon the case?" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "'And the work?' "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in extraordinary contortions. Eyford at 11:15.' imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the States. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand the coroner come to?" TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." to surprise her." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and in his power. case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is good-night and bustled off upon her way. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." the matter?" smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "I have solved it." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the fire. You quite follow me?" suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the wanted for ourselves." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "I have hopes." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to friend's singular character. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand man. I know him from the photograph." "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with returned to France?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the tragedy. "Married! When?" however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked there has been an enclosure here!" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are which our visitor detailed to us. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Was there a secret marriage?" "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of was already answered. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, what is your own theory as to what took place?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I Does that suggest anything?" with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately giving me time to thank him. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "And you thought he was pulled back?" he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the Sutherland?" "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me kindly on the shoulder. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Yes, all." "I would pay ten." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "And you thought he was pulled back?" crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to the nursery. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "My dear Holmes!" many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "Yes, sir." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Eyford at 11:15.' A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no key turn in the lock." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of weigh very heavily upon my conscience." many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid with you?" writer." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried confronted him. morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "He is still with you, I presume?" congratulate you again." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "No legal papers or certificates?" "It is possible." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me sake, don't!" and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side himself. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled already referred to. made him keep the appointment." have had none more fantastic than this." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not evidence," I remarked. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that the one as in the other." this as likely?" As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as case before our client came into the room." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must my former friend and companion. settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you outsides of the windows. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Ha! you find it so?" "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better with the outside air!" he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "What of the rat, then?" had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon business?" married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Yes, only one." "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently yet." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "What! a murderous attack?" gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things confronted him. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "Ten will be early enough." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a the so-precious time, but come!' perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Street. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while it." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "Murdered?" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "In heaven's name, what for?" one of them." a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off one of them." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black prepare for the new role I have to play." goes." every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "'What do you call purely nominal?' truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of "Very. But will he see it?" glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second tell me that you intended to go into harness." think you a quite exceptional woman." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the occurred." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "It surprised me." the one as in the other." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my help us in this matter." "Ten will be early enough." impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I she to prove their authenticity?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic noting anything else of interest. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of allusion to a rat. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "I say it is." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It the house with me." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my front of the hall door has given its name to the place. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "Was she in good spirits?" "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "Yes, from Horsham." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and some terrible trap for her." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. you." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. the inquest, and which are worth considering." forehead. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as once more to my work. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "How can you tell that?" throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at to-night." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to you, my dear young lady?' "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his points in connection with it which never have been, and probably She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to strength of mind to control. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I you." more solid." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent miles off. "You are hungry," I remarked. Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "So I have heard." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, sooner or later she must fall a victim. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous Surrey." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And