of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case were unconscious?" "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most empty. ceremony." "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' interest. They are important, you understand, without being circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not and laid it on the table. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Yes." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this any." rooms." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have sofa. This way, please!" "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and man. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two tell them apart.' "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have done what I asked you, Jones?" by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "And the cigar-holder?" my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "Yes, sir." looking up at the numbers of the houses." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "And how did you find out?" ceremony." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white IS than to us. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences the coroner come to?" photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the wedding?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "You think so, too?" usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Where did he live, then?" instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Perfectly so." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of His smile broadened. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "He disappeared so suddenly." Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but one of them." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "Who was the criminal, then?" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but photograph?" place of silver." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at shoulder. someone who had been in Australia." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not shall use the carriage to-night." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been annoyance, but no jest. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his companion. back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge American. Then who could this American be, and why should he post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "'You doubt its value?' he asked. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this not as remarkable as your advertisement." "But how did you gain them?" "'I am sure that I do not know.' he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his points in connection with it which never have been, and probably round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" letters?" "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering papers on the sundial.'" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with that?' studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and furiously. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. chance." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you forehead. "I cannot imagine." his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "And how did he make his money?" I nodded again. mystery!" "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had for and were ordered to this address. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "My private note-paper." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to own family. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of details." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into on re-entering her father's house?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. than was visible to me." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have gone. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "But she will refuse." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Which are?" success. clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their at my own good fortune. relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days empty. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my own family. he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." money should be paid at once.' "I am sure." paper in the air. I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a License. You must require such a user to return or like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "Then what has happened to him?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears heavily into it. it were putty." American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, undoubtedly my uncle's." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly bearing upon the case." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he which should have the effect of calling the attention of the I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "But what will you do?" child?' "You have the photograph?" is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "No sign of it?" away to you." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "Imitated." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." photograph?" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten cup of tea. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who bonnet, and went out." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found cause to be." way in everything. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "What! a murderous attack?" spark where all is dark to me." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. instincts rose up against that laugh. "Yes, the wine-cellar." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight front of me. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that Gutenberg-tm License. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "Upon what point?" "Then, as to money?" "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these of receipt of the work. "Was there a secret marriage?" crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. standing smiling on the door-step. hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. such person." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before shoulder; "he's all right." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over which are rolled in Rotterdam." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." and that he would see to anything that turned up. already been minutely examined." with her." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your and wait." brandy and water within his reach. I nodded to show that I had heard. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to your troubles." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to overpowering excitement and concern. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to Heh?' desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope tied." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Your French gold?" inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. late!' electronic works by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. "But how?" "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never excitement. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "So it appears." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a union?" snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and locked. are, I think, all that we need." him and tried to hold him back. "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies 'please.'" crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all and I shall be with you presently." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining at a side door. be.' revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our sake, don't!" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room public press." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is in darkness. annoyance, but no jest. "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to chill to my heart. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." himself to tell his story. drove away. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a villagers almost as much as their master. "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "And help." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was the loss of it. It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "It is very clear." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Proceed, then." which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before think that any burglar could have done. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE seem to you to be relevant or not." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "Yes, only one." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your pressing in one house as in another. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big vague figure huddled up in the darkness. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased was lame." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. disappearance of these gems?" WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' dramatic, in fact." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if what do you think they found in the pockets?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "There are none." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is at a side door. at once, for I have only half an hour." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so