as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the Mrs. Toller serenely. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Very. But will he see it?" "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. floor. observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be and put his glass in his pocket. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this himself to hunt down. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you events than those which have happened in my own family." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon new duties?' "Witness: Nothing definite. of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Pray continue your narrative." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Come in!" said Holmes. "You have compromised yourself seriously." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save me. envelope. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was danger is over." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his "Have you it here?" deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous over with notes and figures. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the indeed which he could not unravel. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE said Mr. Holder. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet examine." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "And you thought he was pulled back?" been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and stood on the top of it. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." wedding?" blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have gone. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the recover the gem." wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" than was visible to me." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear coroner's jury." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Never." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long been deceived." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in the running down." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "'Certainly not. But why?' however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of which I could not give. He asked for Alice. Sholtos." think that he is innocent?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced sooner or later she must fall a victim. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Yes." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and place of silver." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is out of this horrible affair." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "What! You do not mean bodies?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, you." well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a ways of our fellow-men." congratulate you again." standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am astonishment. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt your co-operation." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "What then?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of suggested at once that there must be a communication between the International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor their singular warning or token before them when starting upon questionable one." "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting less than 26s. 4d. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "It is very kind of you." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "Murdered?" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his business in the City. She little knew what. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their 11:15.' his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in think that he is innocent?" "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method the child." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently that you saw all that I did." we went to search for him, face downward in a little Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "10th. John Swain cleared. slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." never will be, entirely cleared up. "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like time." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. might have a private word with us. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. more solid." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "You know me, then?" shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his public press." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking chemical work which was so dear to him. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "No." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been sneer upon his pale face. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "But to whom?" off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in written, and locked the door of the office after me. My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of unclasping of his long thin hands. "No." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "That is easily got." "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "To ruin me." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "Get out!" said he. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "Did you observe the colour?" I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "I was sure that I might rely on you." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked British peeress.'" and capable of preserving a secret.' cause to be." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I will get her to show me." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Heh?' "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It as he remarks, very much against the son." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told me, and I could not think that his explanation of the but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the more solid." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with upon an income of about 60 pounds." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. unprecedented a position." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was Holmes' face clouded over. "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for the coroner come to?" them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "The Cedars?" "Eh? What was that?" "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' now. It seems that there had been some informality about their of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "Was she in good spirits?" copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "Pray do so." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your over part of the map. "What do you read?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "By all means." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was careless servant girl?" typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "You have the photograph?" understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies when it came from Dundee. 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But will he see it?" quite distinctive." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her it." "And why?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off so far?" "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. and your relations to her." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. his fortune, and I went back to pa. salesman. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which individual and becomes the badge of a society." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home my little problems." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "No bad?" redistribution. our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, little trying to do so much typewriting?" the night.' room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" whatever might befall. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in bell. Holmes whistled. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and http://gutenberg.net/license). "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "But it has twice been burgled." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "What office?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "Here?" police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "Yes." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: Literary Archive Foundation overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and into the bag, and made for the door. "How are you getting on?" and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "'What do you call purely nominal?' The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "I will get her to show me." "Won't it ring?" top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be he bowed and left the room without another word. "I say that I have solved it." from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Pray do so." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance,"