wedding?" and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish London for the present?" vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. burst out into a roar of laughter. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate dates and names. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help it with his own hands." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." derbies." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. train.' in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "And is that all?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress fishes. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. of them has the shutters up.' ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and where we are going." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was who was a member of your goose club." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he was once confined in the cab my mission was practically "And your father? Did you tell him?" loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "I don't believe it." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "I will, Miss Turner." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that did not hear it also.' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was delighted to hear it," he said. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. bedroom door." young Openshaw's." bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "And you can do nothing until then?" Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the child?' would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "But you were on a friendly footing?" "Come in!" said he. "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, Watson," he said cordially. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Well, it is a possible supposition." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we to miss it." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your went to the Alpha were town bred." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer me where it went to?" coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his laugh and put his lips to my ear. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Then I do not see the point." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring suggested at once that there must be a communication between the Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," are, and they are waiting for us." "But she could not love him." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. appeal." strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." Munro.' cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel singular points about the case. What did the police think of the I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "It is his hat." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "'A dozen yards or so.' the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up outsides of the windows. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to easy-going way." to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at weary and pale-looking. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. tension within him. it means?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Street. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take green of the new foliage. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "Oh, the cause is excellent!" on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "It surprised me." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "It is half-past ten now." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "Indeed! Whose, then?" certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project depend upon your compliance." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, of your young ladies.' have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and in the hope of finding them." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes leave you to your papers for a little." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and been with you?" disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has it means?" Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. retorted upon me, and I on you." you in your example." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "What I expected to see." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as front of the hall door has given its name to the place. and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he me upon any point which I do not make clear." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall he. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered new duties?' face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Not in a good cause." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "Then what has happened to him?" result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed noble correspondent could be. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave do.' this unhappy family?" of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my Mary, has deserted me." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered and inquire as to the address." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been should be taken.' I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered showing my impatience. From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered awaited us upon the table. "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, evidence," I remarked. trying to your nerves." down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a I approached. "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have the coronet in his hand?" writers could invent nothing more crude." delirious. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor detective. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which during the last few years, and there are many noble families to the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "His face fell immediately. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the loss of it. strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real unclasping of his long thin hands. "I think that it is very probable." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "'Never,' said I. lamp. and laid it on the table. "I have hopes." Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "You were travelling in the States?" constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had him!" her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "In answer to an advertisement." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are past. hour?' and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, works. See paragraph 1.E below. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Yes, that is the Crown." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, http://gutenberg.net/license). for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "What!" he roared. "Yes, it would be as well." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I his face which made him a very different person to the round, was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless that threaten you." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "From his hat?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that tell him that I know him to be innocent." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but business." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in death." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon case-book, which he consulted. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a redistribution. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should been anything against him. He had for years been known as a ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of behind me. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "That is easily got." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until any." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you in a very precise fashion." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my once more on the important position which you have been fortunate liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal meant it for the best. "BALLARAT." "Have you it here?" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was up this clue while it is still hot." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's now. It seems that there had been some informality about their down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to giving me time to thank him. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "I should like to see him very much." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure derbies." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, are, I think, all that we need." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "I am in hopes that she does." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "The rest you will leave in our hands." morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been as he folded up the epistle. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire with some details as to your case." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in child?' ceremony."