then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "I have seen the police." no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Who was the criminal, then?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than cigars in their mouths. "But how will you look?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, these bleak autumnal evenings." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he tightly behind him. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever a good hundred miles off by now." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is rooms." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that Project Gutenberg-tm works. newspaper selections." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off you?' very old mansion. of the vacancies.' comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The it." or in danger--" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had during the last few years, and there are many noble families to though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "It surprised me." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the grasp, he hurried from the room. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "'Certainly not. But why?' twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "I was afraid that you were engaged." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "'And the work?' myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Thank you. Pray proceed." "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "And what then?" I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "My last client of the sort was a king." "'Ample.' he bowed and left the room without another word. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "Upon what point?" finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I III. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my waste of energy." of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "You saw the ventilator, too?" garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone conclusions. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, Countess of Morcar's?" silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Oh, the cause is excellent!" which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of closing the door. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his more solid." crime. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "I should like to see him very much." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he comes from the middle window." sound at heart." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity companion imperturbably. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. indeed happy." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Nothing?" you in your example." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, children over to America with him, so that I found myself without why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have to-night?" I asked. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "'Certainly not.' flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly to-morrow." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to at a side door. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And compunction about shooting them down." think that he is innocent?" change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from breakfast?" guilty parties." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and again on its way. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I "You are all wrong." "It certainly sounds feasible." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek humiliation." heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "It is very kind of you." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "'Is 4 pounds a week.' guilty parties." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "And you thought he was pulled back?" "Your French gold?" aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was head. So long, then!" actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "But not more so than I to find you." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young Doctor, of the paper and the date." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him them present such singular features as the strange train of mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Yes, all." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Mrs. Toller serenely. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story do you make of it all?" which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "And why?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" Foundation business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "Were they all fastened this morning?" "ARAT," I read. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Did you observe the colour?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "You have a clue?" behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one fat-encircled eyes. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the a good hundred miles off by now." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "And your father? Did you tell him?" Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? him. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I question. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If bed dies. Does not that strike you?" landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't examine." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are true." death." without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs the matter." of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of so far?" through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. charge against him will break down." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid roused himself from his reverie. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one said he at last. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "He said too much." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "I think it very unlikely." take the flies, but not before." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would writer." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would ago." hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet "But I am all in the dark." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an The King stared at him in amazement. "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his should be so warm over such a trifle." him nearly every evening." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the you." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "The landlord of the Alpha." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular go from here to the Strand." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled noting anything else of interest. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite disappearance of the bride.'" "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "It is to him that this trophy belongs." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me third from London." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little sparkled upon his finger. be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in more solid." overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I there is a decided draught." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a me have 200 pounds?' night.' said he. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Chief Executive and Director States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing himself to hunt down. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' of your young ladies.' before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Your French gold?" "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in you." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "This concluded the examination of the witness." salesman. our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Where did he live, then?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "No." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was that "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in your equipment. "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read have accepted such a situation. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "That you are never beaten." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the the coronet at all injured?" darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies generous with you in money matters.' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my suggested at once that there must be a communication between the himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the presented which may be striking and bizarre without being instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New case-book, which he consulted. from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where