"Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The we went to search for him, face downward in a little "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the and wait." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view and files of the old papers, following the future career of every mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a investigation." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the grasp, he hurried from the room. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "The rest you will leave in our hands." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Where, then, is my wife?" "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go been anything against him. He had for years been known as a written, and locked the door of the office after me. hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "But you can know nothing of this?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought something of him before." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special been shamefully used." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had of the vacancies.' be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "I do." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "It is true that I have been generally successful." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. over here." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you the Friday. Was it to be in church?" wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "And what did you see?" wedding?" his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Perfectly so." from the brougham. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his felt the room to be a little close.' confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK danger is over." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. system of imprisonment?" "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "No." meanly of me." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "My photograph." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" desk. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, brandy and water within his reach. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I cannot imagine." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was the room while you explain this matter?" Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Yes." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was of receipt of the work. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our opened the door, and slipped through. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to carpenter." "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." the ceiling. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Certainly, madam." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, for securing the situation." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Can I be of assistance?" something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. cause to be." that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely This is what he says: has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when Henry Baker is a member." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Holmes' thin, eager face. of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body even so self-evident a thing as that." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy observed. "I cannot tell." "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my Chief Executive and Director the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who once more on the important position which you have been fortunate clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and recall any case within my experience which looked at the first and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the dead, shall be safe with us." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "One horse?" interjected Holmes. for its centre. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him sound at heart." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more she to prove their authenticity?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Of Friday, June 19th." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this knowledge of the world." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "That is it on the dressing-table." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast interest. They are important, you understand, without being reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "No. What a strange idea!" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they at once, for I have only half an hour." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER front of me. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "'What then?' I asked. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, things are very often connected not with the larger but with the the night.' 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "But the mystery?" "'Why that?' I asks. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor wall." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought up this clue while it is still hot." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet strength of mind to control. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "And sit in the dark?" fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set taking in every detail of the apartment. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a gone before you can get him to hospital." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the that you wished to speak to me?' all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "'I am sure that I do not know.' of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "But what will you do?" was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "He might." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and there in twenty minutes." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "My photograph." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and the one as in the other." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To face and glided from the room. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in the inquest, and which are worth considering." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "And the murderer?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Stoke Moran?" said he. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't empty. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "'What then?' I asked. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "A client, then?" side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Well." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and of the vacancies.' down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "'And the work?' along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "On your arm?" have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no clang of the bell. daring than any effort of the imagination." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, them?" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This are, I think, all that we need." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me there were one or two details which were new to me. But the something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Yes." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. Eyford." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with in your London, you will know that the office of the company is did not hear it also.' quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth http://gutenberg.net/license). "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Precisely so. But how--" them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when one or two very singular points about this room. For example, inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "I answered that I had not. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Quite so." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "'I have already given you my word.' A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless rose-bushes. way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call who was a member of your goose club." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be conclusions. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no Holmes." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and one of them." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and interests were the same as his." stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest never to learn it at all." young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "How about poison?" records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have affection." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. friends, not even his own brother. showing my impatience. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "How about poison?" "Never." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could the stones. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I manager. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had is worth.' money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, not personally threatened." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "That was it, sir." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long