the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a place, I think that there is good ground to think that the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at 1.F. child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows new acquaintance to Baker Street. "That is it on the dressing-table." a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. place of silver." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would the inquest, and which are worth considering." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "I will not look." definite end. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This envelope. "And how in the world did you find them?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he third from London." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps felt the room to be a little close.' where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "You'll never persuade me to believe that." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her generous with you in money matters.' wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid that he will be back before evening." beg that you will break it off." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have felt?" "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the My friend smiled. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Henry Baker is a member." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position during that time.' "Did you become engaged then?" gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that one which it was hard to resist. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival see a sister of mine apply for." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "But you can know nothing of this?" "And what did you learn from him?" propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "And sit in the dark?" "No, distinctly professional." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a and put his glass in his pocket. morning." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, business." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what ourselves in the office." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott the tragedy. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Then you may be so with me." so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white gbnewby@pglaf.org is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the in a very precise fashion." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Holmes' thin, eager face. it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "'You doubt its value?' he asked. bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, cigar and let me expound." "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must eat it." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation bonnet, and went out." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "Never." even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, geese which you supplied to the Alpha." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "A call for help, you thought?" ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "You think so, too?" introspective fashion. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Oh, the cause is excellent!" that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as and the colonel ushered me in. of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "He is dead," cried several voices. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about future lives." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some second." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, envelope. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' made his money." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." the night.' "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "It is true that I have been generally successful." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "And why?" afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Thank you. Pray proceed." leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical money should be paid at once.' rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "'Which dealer's?' "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt Holmes rather sternly. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "VIOLET HUNTER." directors have had misgivings upon the subject." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss and that he would see to anything that turned up. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of your troubles." and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was with the outside air!" "Yes, certainly." the window, rose as we entered. just called myself is not exactly my own." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "You will not go there first?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "What then?" eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in it were putty." "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to dear old homesteads?" friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of bedroom door." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Gutenberg-tm License. "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "A confidential servant?" not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of mystery!" his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a nonsense.' success. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will careless servant girl?" "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project guilty parties." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and it." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "I am following you closely," I answered. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "How did that help you?" I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small as he folded up the epistle. second." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the four million human beings all jostling each other within the "How are you getting on?" outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a hurried away. himself to tell his story. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend footfalls from the street. the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "I should like to see him very much." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at could gather together that I was able to avert another public armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, up this clue while it is still hot." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. bachelor.' essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent never will be, entirely cleared up. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a see me here to avoid scandal." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true the roots. "I should wish to." events than those which have happened in my own family." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the carpenter." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Sutherland. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in villagers almost as much as their master. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "'I am sure if I had known--' Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is ceremony." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few charge against him will break down." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "My dear Holmes!" "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at photograph?" main points of my analysis." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man presented more singular features than that which was associated "Never." "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." for and were ordered to this address. against a man in the prime of life?" three of the beryls in it, was missing. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Then, how do you know?" what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "Very murderous indeed." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I unclasping of his long thin hands. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his keep the flames under. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but details should find their way into the papers. Inspector disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "Who was the criminal, then?" and glanced through. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the discontent upon his features. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, keep the flames under. bird I ate is country bred." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles remarked. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family particular state visit http://pglaf.org eavesdroppers?' passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "'I have heard so.' into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still and effective." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of newspaper selections." but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds leaning back in his chair. LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey fluttered off among the others. "I am all attention, madam." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the and glanced through. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up conclusions. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "There is the writing." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." status with the IRS. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." directors, with the result that you have seen." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Have you it here?" not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "'You cannot say what it was?' paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "It is possible." residence of the great financier. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' question," said Holmes, smiling. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Mrs. Toller serenely. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up Arthur Conan Doyle but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the soul! here is her carriage at the door." "I think it very unlikely." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to and shall probably return to London by the evening train." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely was a loud and authoritative tap. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a some water from a caraffe. interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door been shamefully used." retorted upon me, and I on you." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in enter into my head. constraint." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "I have come for advice." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated vault. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "But what harm can there be in that?" "I was certainly surprised to find you there." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she notes," he said. that I may have something better before very many minutes are "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a and your relations to her." "And help." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." strength." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then,"