Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire that he will be back before evening." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must way in everything. position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after trifles." must be when I saw the door open.' Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "Will you go?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "Oh, yes, easily." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is hands. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull off." be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "No." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just handed it to him. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "But the mystery?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "A confidential servant?" "My photograph." afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps directors have had misgivings upon the subject." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous singular points about the case. What did the police think of the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the date of his supposed suicide." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the is a common subject for conversation. "To an English lawyer named Norton." his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the nursery. It may be so in this case, also." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips politicians who had been sent down from the North. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. answer." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, British peeress.'" read it out to me." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "You don't mind breaking the law?" central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back least a fellow-countryman. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is the very letters. But what is this written above them?' view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "How often?" I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "Your presence might be invaluable." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," business at Coburg Square is serious." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "Ah!" Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and nights." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, fasten all the windows?" struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged she has been waylaid. There has been no result." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "'And the work?' strength in the others." of your young ladies.' called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting had formerly been in part my own. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than you." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed to have been novel and of interest." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a Gutenberg-tm License. from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself heavy and sharp instrument." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "'Where to?' occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in opened the door, and slipped through. bled considerably." "We must have a cab." intrusion of other matters." problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "So I heard. You have him here?" I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations about. "One of his hands." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." imbecility!" he cried. matters immensely." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or and laid it on the table. shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, official police." get the tickets." and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I gbnewby@pglaf.org "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "And is that all?" but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, there in twenty minutes." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, south, for the country is more deserted there." double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not of Fenchurch Street." charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "I would pay ten." the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still lamp. "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "What then?" "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily interest. They are important, you understand, without being his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I and wait." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Where is it, then?" at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." intrusion of other matters." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. all that?" "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain you give your casting vote to?" himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." awkward doing business with an alias." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own The telegram which we eventually received came late one night so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Holmes' thin, eager face. the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in the bed, and you in that chair." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "Seven!" I answered. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under one or two very singular points about this room. For example, the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "I warn you that they are very incomplete." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential some water from a caraffe. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with gone. that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down occurred." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking infinite languor in his face. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger fuss that is made over them." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of written, and locked the door of the office after me. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, than was visible to me." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very hour." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an instincts rose up against that laugh. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the union?" "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. his grey eyes. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "But you were on a friendly footing?" morning." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "I say that I have solved it." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the will not take me long to tell. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." invisible to me," I remarked. that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, wife's character?" He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so lumber-room." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, what these perils are?" and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed forbidden door. as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent late!' pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a speckled band?" "Very. But will he see it?" nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and seem to you to be relevant or not." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "The rest you will leave in our hands." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. and no precautions can guard against." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly ceremony." to tell." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still companion. near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting cost them two and thirty pounds." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "Not yet." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room you." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon to tackle the facts." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than respectable self." or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been "Bought." towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "And how?" heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was fuss that is made over them." "I beg pardon." Does that suggest anything?" they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some row." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if of a light. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it what do you think they found in the pockets?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could strength in the others." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Always." me have 200 pounds?' grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "I have come for advice." back to my heart. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your answered with a sidelong glance. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his goes." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "I shall be delighted." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "That is possible." companion imperturbably. "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim I am not easy in my mind about them." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Oh, the cause is excellent!" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I