discontent upon his features. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing foresight and the moral retrogression?" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were It may be so in this case, also." "None. Neville wrote those words." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and strength." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He prison!" Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "It is a murder, then?" met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. been." air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good him to be an active member of the medical profession." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." it. excitement. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of best detective that ever lived. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The discontent upon his features. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Come in!" said he. distance from the station, and there we found the young lady first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, not fit the lock." "I will, Miss Turner." despair." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "But how will you look?" pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa instincts rose up against that laugh. "But I am all in the dark." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and some mystery and the punishment of some crime." one's self under obligations.' said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "He disappeared so suddenly." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "He slept on the premises." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain and the church but not where the lady lived." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes have established a very serious case against the son of the "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, anything to do with the matter?" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from tightly behind him. "By no means." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did he bowed and left the room without another word. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in train from Paddington which would bring you there at about was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "'Stolen!' he cried. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "I shall most certainly do so." crime." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "And did you observe any change in her then?" I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "My private note-paper." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "You have but to name it." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE shadow pass over his face as I spoke. and the church but not where the lady lived." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is away to you." Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. passage and a tap at the door. "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to The events in question occurred in the early days of my me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, train.' "What then?" well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "By train from Waterloo." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "To the police?" "No legal papers or certificates?" "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon notes," he said. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the situation." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "Seven!" I answered. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. invisible to me," I remarked. case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to as he folded up the epistle. narrative." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no were wasted." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "I have my revolver," said I. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when quickly through a disagreeable task. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both characteristics, but those are the more obvious." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "You will not go there first?" we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "My last client of the sort was a king." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The new acquaintance to Baker Street. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people "In San Francisco, a year ago." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without your billet.' "Nothing." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "My last client of the sort was a king." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. The events in question occurred in the early days of my say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away third from London." "'A dozen yards or so.' "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," with the outside air!" quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "By train from Waterloo." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "What do you mean?" Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a suddenly upon us." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "But not more so than I to find you." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers see me here to avoid scandal." been able to understand it, in a very few words. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For wedding?" fire. You quite follow me?" character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "But you have hopes?" self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. mystery may be cleared along those lines." security.' bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project now. It seems that there had been some informality about their quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the driver. matters immensely." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this way: cause to be." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather bare slabs of marble. promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity without success. At last the little money which I had saved began little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the not fit the lock." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can one of the states of the Union." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant respectable self." heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and said he. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "She told me to ask you." decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." asked. broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "And it is--" someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a late." Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "A client, then?" out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a charge against him will break down." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "Nor running a chance of arrest?" the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. minor matters until to-morrow." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I look upon these things in a different way." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Nothing?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "It goes to the housekeeper's room." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "Ten will be early enough." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty it." business." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "My private note-paper." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of congratulate you again." weapon." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I and I shall be with you presently." long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "But what will you do?" "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. money should be paid at once.' frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent neither fascinating nor artistic." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by fear." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel rose-bushes. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "Was there a secret marriage?" supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what emerged. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "Yes, it was twisted." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently distinguish the words: fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of entirely devoid of interest." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." memory. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all have established a very serious case against the son of the the armchair which I pushed forward for him. almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who article?" sofa. This way, please!" annoyance, but no jest. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "Here?" money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle absolutely follow my advice in every respect." Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian impression behind it as though a window had gently closed to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his my friend's incisive reasoning. "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey against a man in the prime of life?" and have this put in the evening papers." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "Well, but China?" it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "May I see it?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? appeared upon the scene." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes Young McCarthy must be got off, however."