word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you never will be, entirely cleared up. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would bedroom door." "No legal papers or certificates?" father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us peculiar to him. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness McCarthy's innocence. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked girl said." thirty. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an article?" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you opportunities to fix the problem. "Never to return." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a to-morrow." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during Cross for the Continent." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, several quiet little villages up there." reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "Nothing?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that newspaper selections." metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready guilty parties." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Very murderous indeed." "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "No?" hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from there." "No." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took wanted for ourselves." twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I footfalls from the street. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing companion. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to papers." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she new acquaintance to Baker Street. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Absolutely none." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "'I am sure that I do not know.' was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "The Cedars?" have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "'I have heard so.' "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at suspect him." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a where we are going." "It is a murder, then?" me where it went to?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "And I to find an enemy." with frightened eyes at his accuser. in his power. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Yes." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. one of the states of the Union." criminal. We have already had experience of such." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say against a man in the prime of life?" "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that exactly what you advise." particular state visit http://pglaf.org "I shall be delighted." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to tell him that I know him to be innocent." In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this any." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having have had none more fantastic than this." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." colour had been driven from his face. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You fashion which was peculiar to him. such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Entirely." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to Where does the thing come from?' "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Only as much as we can deduce." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and at a side door. heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "I think it very unlikely." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "I have come for advice." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. from you?" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Where to?" Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "She walked into the breakfast-room." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "You saw the ventilator, too?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and death." "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern from the brougham. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still been lifted and conveyed somewhere." a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. really the only notable feature about the thing." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the head. So long, then!" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which and the church but not where the lady lived." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "The vanishing of the lady." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door business at Coburg Square is serious." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to dear old homesteads?" relief. "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "You were travelling in the States?" "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily ill-usage at the hands of fortune. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, even of instruction." colour had been driven from his face. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from question. garden below. The King stared at him in amazement. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "'Never.' something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had remarked. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn ways of our fellow-men." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded to-night?" I asked. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my delighted to hear it," he said. mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Nothing." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "In which, sir?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. despair." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "A client, then?" the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he opened the door, and slipped through. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "'Is 4 pounds a week.' fatally injured? mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." your room." caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the are, I think, all that we need." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned on in his house." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "And help." "Who was the criminal, then?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "And it is--" room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to young Openshaw's." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to in. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' simple cases which are so extremely difficult." enter into my head. "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers carried out of court." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a floor. bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the warnings." no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father once more to my work. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "May I see it?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "Yes, sir." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Pray let us have it, for all that." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the asked. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do enter into my head. the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! and the church but not where the lady lived." "I have come for advice." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to the Friday. Was it to be in church?" the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. morning." your co-operation." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable Mary, has deserted me." There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so not within a twentieth part of the market price." get the tickets." waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains young Openshaw's." thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work to a more successful conclusion." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Stolen, then." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern few hundred pounds.' Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I seven miles from Eyford Station.' "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Stolen, then." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an despair." death." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "Oh, the cause is excellent!" Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. status with the IRS. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "We must sit without light. He would see it through the about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Yes. He waved his hands." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, never to learn it at all." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who society." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during see a sister of mine apply for." wife's character?" eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "'In my own bureau.' everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." correct than the official force." There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that someone who had been in Australia." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the writer." "Yes." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, Holmes' thin, eager face. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "No." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other existence." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this