Holmes' room. Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "This concluded the examination of the witness." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "I shall most certainly do so." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which Holmes rather sternly. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's enough to aid us in our search." "'Why that?' I asks. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering very morning of my second wedding." "Were they all fastened this morning?" said I. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "None. Neville wrote those words." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the crime. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It than was visible to me." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "But your client--" down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "I promise," said Holmes. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact new acquaintance to Baker Street. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK My friend smiled. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally village inn over there?" which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "This photograph!" which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "Certainly." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she carried out of court." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. than to us. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Henry Baker is a member." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "I shall be delighted." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "What! Had he lost his wife?" read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by opportunities to fix the problem. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended away to you." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known outbreak?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest one of them." "You have but to name it." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with compunction about shooting them down." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able hopeless attempt at recovering them." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all to that open window." Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope bill, which interests me deeply." and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "It is true that I have been generally successful." go--none." Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "A client, then?" over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at the bed, and you in that chair." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about infinite languor in his face. "In what way?" asked Holmes. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Why, it's a dummy," said he. fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "No good news?" As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, Young McCarthy must be got off, however." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed Doctor, of the paper and the date." key turn in the lock." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly showing my impatience. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Then I shall certainly come." exactly what you advise." "And when will you call?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his it means?" week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could any little problem which you may submit to me." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "What, then?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." bearing upon the case." "I cannot imagine." until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "But how?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who II. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "'I am sure if I had known--' already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the himself in a perplexing position. "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "Not social, then?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net horse could go." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs certainly do as you advise." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been gone before you can get him to hospital." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "You think so, too?" "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was over with notes and figures. together. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "'Never.' it with his own hands." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the digesting their breakfasts at home." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Ah!" were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had your co-operation." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "The landlord of the Alpha." should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "'What would be the hours?' I asked. photograph a cabinet?" muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were anything to a woman, for she would have her way." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some which our visitor detailed to us. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his useful material for showing traces. The double line a little this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "No, distinctly professional." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Witness: Nothing definite. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate amused." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. in. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in me where it went to?" though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "'Ten to two.' way: the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting place of silver." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which new acquaintance to Baker Street. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his populous neighbourhood." that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who Gutenberg-tm License. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "The vanishing of the lady." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the to Leatherhead. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "I will get her to show me." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be closely." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you mysterious business." not within a twentieth part of the market price." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "He said that you could solve anything." what do you think they found in the pockets?" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and me have 200 pounds?' possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "But how?" I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "We were both in the photograph." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and the driver. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it could not have written that. It is the German who is so expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "This photograph!" allusion to a rat. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the not fit the lock." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Can I be of assistance?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "Imitated." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might had died away into the silence from which it rose. I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Dr. Becher's." correct than the official force." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "The King of Scandinavia." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert the devil!" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are and have this put in the evening papers." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "'And the work?' my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may at home. it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very I was concerned in it." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for the inner apartment." bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "You have but to name it." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been cause to be." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, for securing the situation." The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at formed some opinion?" "Only as much as we can deduce." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute was once confined in the cab my mission was practically number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and once more. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "Certainly." a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that highroad, where all traces were lost. "'Yes, sir.' with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a carriage. It was a chestnut." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing think that any burglar could have done. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed