Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. the Red-headed League." "By train from Waterloo." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "Indeed! Whose, then?" been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from breakfast?" "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "I would give my fortune to have them back." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but carried out of court." near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "And your mother is alive?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. observed. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end come either from the window or the door. My attention was was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you could gather together that I was able to avert another public "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm to-night's adventure." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I passage and a tap at the door. unkempt, staring out at me. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. to arrive at through this?" about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt south, for the country is more deserted there." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his with the outside air!" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, in his hands." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me to-morrow." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "That you are never beaten." swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "My opinion is in no way altered." the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever to change my dress. cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of for its centre. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing in this way: "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with them?" think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all my room." Eyford." Lee, in the county of Kent." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "'Not at all. I only doubt--' jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in have not had my rubber." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "'Certainly not.' The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "Yes, sir." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in showing my impatience. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. tear off another piece?' have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "You have carte blanche." "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features some place of shelter and let the county police know what has before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "A client, then?" down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "What I expected to see." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of not come at once?" fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and enter into my head. and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have the room while you explain this matter?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may learned something! Where are the gems?" the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the morning." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are papers must be those that are destroyed.' felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would and no precautions can guard against." even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must advice." "I say that I have solved it." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge to where he stood hid behind the curtain. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but again before evening." Farm upon the left." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him said he at last. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of purpose of examination. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES handed it to him. "Where, then, is my wife?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "I am sure." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in lumber-room." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. success. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly your equipment. the matter." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "You saw the ventilator, too?" discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, on re-entering her father's house?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your visitors." Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it shadow pass over his face as I spoke. Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary there is a decided draught." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "'I have already given you my word.' held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the to-night's adventure." without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "A confidential servant?" lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you subject to the trademark license, especially commercial Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "Then you may entirely rely on me." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, locked. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "But of what society?" convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an But Holmes shook his head gravely. "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Cross for the Continent." considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say the coronet in his hand?" "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "I cannot imagine." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been his cane at the bell-pull. there when the Rucastles went away." "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less bonnet, and went out." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he not come at once?" "Who by?" these bleak autumnal evenings." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Street. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more the house with me." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he words came to my lips. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "What then?" "What can it mean?" I gasped. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "You horrify me." was shining brightly. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be posted to-day." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "She told me to ask you." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips seem to you to be relevant or not." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, II. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished side. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of fashion which was peculiar to him. you in yours." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. to arrive at through this?" Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "No, thank goodness, she did not." the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are six. Come in!" "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "Then the page we have seen--" me where it went to?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very point our research must commence, and we will begin it by swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. as noiselessly as she had come. "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, the King without delay." "I don't say that. Perhaps." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before what do you think they found in the pockets?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version conceal it?" to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "No, thank goodness, she did not." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "Dark enough and sinister enough." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away him and tried to hold him back. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that to go into your room and bar your shutters?" will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "How on earth--" every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most the Red-headed League." furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of and all of them with the keenest interest. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "'Most admirably.' "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Nothing." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "And leave your case unfinished?" stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you and put his glass in his pocket. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "Then I am your man." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did woman." morning." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which I think that I could be of assistance to you." developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been be.' had a long day." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in him!" seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich that?' "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If the matter?" dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would You want to know what became of those geese?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. good for you to do.' me where it went to?" the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there but preventing her from injuring another. "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "What I expected to see." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us searched, without anything being found which could incriminate the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "It is possible." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried