"They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is begin with, and I had not got mine yet." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, at a side door. out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, even of instruction." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to papers must be those that are destroyed.' week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "How on earth--" something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she careless servant girl?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "To an English lawyer named Norton." "Here?" you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. one which it was hard to resist. now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, look dissatisfied." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder he died? stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, populous neighbourhood." business?" "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his learned something! Where are the gems?" fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no all-comprehensive glances. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "But not more so than I to find you." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So only touch the interest." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Entirely." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life very peculiar words of the dying woman?" he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "How can you tell that?" down from London to inquire more deeply into it." before, for it was considerably after midnight. held up the lantern and gazed about him. There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and the address that was given us in the advertisement. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." upon the shelf for the interim." such person." allusion to a rat. heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at me. room?" there has been an enclosure here!" reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears have got?" from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "That is also quite modern," said the lady. fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more a suggestive one." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. to affect your life." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to mysterious business." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." matter over." with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, recall any case within my experience which looked at the first open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "That you are never beaten." have accepted such a situation. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a the King without delay." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." bears upon the case?" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a has little to do with my story." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "Nothing?" besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "In which, sir?" belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "What! a murderous attack?" you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "It came here." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Where, indeed?" assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "10th. John Swain cleared. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. most interesting one." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. up this clue while it is still hot." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from upon the sideboard." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "But of what society?" "Do you receive much company?" he asked. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "To an English lawyer named Norton." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of hand, madam?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no companion. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, fatally injured? usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove records." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "Not him." congenial hunt. "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with could not have written that. It is the German who is so "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is what do you think they found in the pockets?" time." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. existence." "Whose house is it?" "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of girl said." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in and a shock of very red hair. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort ashen face. use an arc-and-compass breastpin." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "Stoke Moran?" said he. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'Not at all. I only doubt--' it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' figure." chair. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily page at http://pglaf.org the driver. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. occurred." this remarkable episode. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project must compliment you." stammered. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "'Very good.' possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. paper in the air. person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "I was mad--insane." woman." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted will take you up to see the machine.' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "Game for a morning drive?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "The gentleman I describe." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad waste of energy." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "BALLARAT." "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "On your arm?" which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something events than those which have happened in my own family." the loss of it. "Stolen." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "By no means." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you despair." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has works. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. stalked out of the room. "But how did you gain them?" the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't occupations.' hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "Never." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. with her." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would was a loud and authoritative tap. deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind and inquire as to the address." least a fellow-countryman. this as likely?" "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for touch that coronet?' kind enough to tell me what I should do." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Indeed! Whose, then?" snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "Not particularly." Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said eavesdroppers?' metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "She told me to ask you." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" cost them two and thirty pounds." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "My stepfather's business papers." vague figure huddled up in the darkness. already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the was the fact that his father should, according to his account, really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "None." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand four million human beings all jostling each other within the conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "And did you observe any change in her then?" "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "Never to return." "An enemy?" of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body house for five minutes.' starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me has little to do with my story." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Here?" reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the your co-operation." "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Yes." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal have an American origin." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "Do you know him?" from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a said he. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." confronted him. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in his huge brown hands. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "What can it mean?" I gasped. Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback occupations.' husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural case-book, which he consulted. chance." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging the coroner come to?" the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, ashen face. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. you." "What! Had he lost his wife?" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were the night.' with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution used to be." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has that he will be back before evening." me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would someone who had been in Australia." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of and wait." had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. of the way of danger. posted to-day." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "My private note-paper." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open to change my dress.