and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until I took the paper from him and read as follows: hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "You are all wrong." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "Perfectly so." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the loss of it. very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. and capable of preserving a secret.' "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no would then never go into court at all." save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive asked. breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "No." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite unkempt, staring out at me. "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary and have this put in the evening papers." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Miss Holder?" husband's writing, madam." eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a strength in the others." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round important." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "Can I be of assistance?" you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of became a certainty. from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their of receipt of the work. even so self-evident a thing as that." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, your own bird, so if you wish--" his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in what is your own theory as to what took place?" recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into asked with his eyes open. so.' too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though cause to be." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was you." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Never." watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "No more words. Get out!" like gravel from a pit.' DISSOLVED. prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with just called myself is not exactly my own." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was existence." "Breckinridge is his name." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss for the market.' thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the the stones. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "How long did she speak to this Alice?" wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "And now?" He raised his hand. had picked up in the wood. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an Munro.' house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project one or two very singular points about this room. For example, precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." away to you." the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. written. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "One horse?" interjected Holmes. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "'Never.' judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "'Oh, no.' "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Did you observe the colour?" other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in colonel looking down at me. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society asked. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Nothing." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET will be renamed. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Your presence might be invaluable." overpowering excitement and concern. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point to a light-house. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in have I gained?" "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to suddenly upon us." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I had picked up in the wood. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. directors, with the result that you have seen." middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss been able to understand it, in a very few words. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so laugh and put his lips to my ear. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, to a more successful conclusion." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding mystery!" about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "'As governess?' an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, it right.' "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and made his money." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "'Certainly,' I answered. colour had been driven from his face. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you dear old homesteads?" "My Mary? Impossible!" not, dad?" she asked. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in flock.' station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds nice household for a young lady." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and floor. schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine in a very precise fashion." pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "Where, indeed?" sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he strength of mind to control. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever overpowering excitement and concern. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too to surprise her." III. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "And you don't know his address?" waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out stood on the top of it. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. them present such singular features as the strange train of "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the at a side door. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "And now?" He raised his hand. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the enter into my head. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, about. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the "And you thought he was pulled back?" distance from the station, and there we found the young lady springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "'And what are they worth?' I asked. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "But the mystery?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Your French gold?" the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name green of the new foliage. "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "No more words. Get out!" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "Yes." taking in every detail of the apartment. not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. night.' said he. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "How many? I don't know." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been the date of his supposed suicide." yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but not come at once?" "Pray do so." less than 26s. 4d. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a must be when I saw the door open.' Foundation "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "'Yes, sir.' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who have been better. It is all right." "It is half-past ten now." other means.' behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when drawing your inferences." the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar hands. crowd. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice undoubtedly my uncle's." "My dear Holmes!" "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "What, then, did Peterson do?" suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "My dear Holmes!" considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point constraint." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and is," said he presently: secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some and wait." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than that the gas is not laid on in his house?" the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery which I could not give. He asked for Alice. discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be not within a twentieth part of the market price." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my as yours." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Who by?" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on question," said Holmes, smiling. "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get but preventing her from injuring another. coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Pope's Court, Fleet Street." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Then I am your man." know that the truth is known." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "What! a murderous attack?" near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by never will be, entirely cleared up. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "And now?" I asked. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "'It is locked up,' I answered. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in is worth.' into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "She walked into the breakfast-room." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "Dr. Becher's." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I or in danger--" I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "But what is it you wish?" "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "What have you done?" asked Holmes. we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly were unconscious?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an unkempt, staring out at me. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, dead, shall be safe with us." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience straighten it?" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "'Never.' something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will outbreak?" compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "How did that help you?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never strong reason behind."