side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be way in everything. you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very went to the Alpha were town bred." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there not as remarkable as your advertisement." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about know that the truth is known." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." presented more singular features than that which was associated impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" tell him that I know him to be innocent." "It must be recovered." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "ARAT," I read. gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for http://gutenberg.net/license). came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. not come at once?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should upon the shelf for the interim." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet it. banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small child?' drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that thought that she would have been so carried away." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended locked. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, the bottom.' "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Oh, fresh and glossy." "He slept on the premises." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would could gather together that I was able to avert another public over with notes and figures. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we the Red-headed League." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I business at Coburg Square is serious." could gather together that I was able to avert another public other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we case-book, which he consulted. two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been you do it in twenty minutes!' Holmes' thin, eager face. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and coroner's jury." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the own family. better in every way that they should make their position a little come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case house for five minutes.' companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home What do you deduce from it?" with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if have accepted such a situation. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "No more words. Get out!" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then troubles have been weighing upon his mind. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "So I have heard." among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, one of them." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "And your mother is alive?" the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "And from a noble client?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it then?" "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "What is it?" however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Yes." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "I guessed as much." of his shoulders. Project Gutenberg-tm works. young Openshaw's." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of threw himself down with his face to the pillow. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "'Then let me do so?' cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the brain must have something in it." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of into her hand at the door and which lured her within their this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 you?" compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see just ask you whether you had heard it.' could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "I will, Miss Turner." with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, infinite languor in his face. given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as there." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' chamber." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "But how?" reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "Can I be of assistance?" "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major details." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Of what?" to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Your French gold?" Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little was shining brightly. seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "He said too much." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "But I am all in the dark." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was you." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "'Certainly,' I answered. His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End think that he is innocent?" January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "But you were on a friendly footing?" upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "No, thank goodness, she did not." this man was intellectual?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "How did you trace it, then?" road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a outsides of the windows. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! right! Sit down and let us talk it over." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we chamber." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads absorbing." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a pierced for earrings?" whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "Dirty?" "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a late!' My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he or in danger--" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a death." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "But how?" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his is so. I know all about McCarthy." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your John Swain, of St. Augustine. the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "It came here." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "But who is he?" and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with read it out to me." "Indeed! Whose, then?" little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "No, finished." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by presented more singular features than that which was associated is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "But what will you do?" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "That also I could fathom." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "The rest you will leave in our hands." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the completely overtopped every other consideration that we both as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." invisible to me," I remarked. "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and an introduction to him?" Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love appeared upon the scene." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the been deceived." woman who has had her own way to make in the world. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission nothing with him." opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, gone before you can get him to hospital." "That is it on the dressing-table." served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure you understand?" while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent upon the sideboard." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one notes," he said. think, you have already met." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "You have the photograph?" I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay place of silver." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two troubles have been weighing upon his mind. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have crowd. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "The knees of his trousers." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves forebodings. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite *** START: FULL LICENSE *** he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the read over the extraordinary announcement. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. would apply.' With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of emerged. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her recover the gem." untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "'Which dealer's?' really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging wedding?" determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for down. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "This concluded the examination of the witness." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with breakfast." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "And you can do nothing until then?" back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "I say that I have solved it." woman." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see was once confined in the cab my mission was practically that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic bell. Holmes whistled. other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "I would give my fortune to have them back." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know even of instruction." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "In which, sir?" License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I way: until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "'What then?' I asked. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his present." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "'What do you call purely nominal?' us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Arthur Conan Doyle home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "Because he was handy and would come cheap." Farm upon the left." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced observed. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "We must have a cab." "It is very clear." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "My photograph." "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. woman." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on three of the beryls in it, was missing. "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Nor running a chance of arrest?" they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked people in all walks of life. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some