long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet own family. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. this man was intellectual?" Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a peculiar to him. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. be. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay threw himself down with his face to the pillow. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so in the dead of the night?' this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little know all about it," he snarled. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "I will do it." forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "And who is her maid?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see bled considerably." "Only as much as we can deduce." Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Why? What do you mean?" the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few brandy and water within his reach. firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was even so self-evident a thing as that." outbreak?" have not had my rubber." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. tied." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition became a certainty. "The landlord of the Alpha." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and security.' "Here?" been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's easy-going way." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "The landlord of the Alpha." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "We were both in the photograph." "Why serious?" brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had at home. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "It certainly sounds feasible." gone. "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet politicians who had been sent down from the North. that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this nights." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "It came here." how narrow had been my escape. and laid it on the table. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very golden eyeglasses. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. other lovers by making love himself." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "And on what day did he meet his death?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, the King without delay." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. who was a member of your goose club." relief. "And on what day did he meet his death?" buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "So I have heard." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the in his hands." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey definite end. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper Stoke Moran." photograph?" "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "'Where to?' come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "'I am sure that I do not know.' "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "A greater distance to travel." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, bill, which interests me deeply." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window Have you good authority for what you say?" thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Not in a good cause." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go shaken than I had ever seen him. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to the Friday. Was it to be in church?" hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Nothing?" "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. easy-going way." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in upon a handsome competence. conduct the inquiry." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." formed some opinion?" Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. enter Dr. Roylott's room." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent Leadenhall Street--and--" harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "How did he come?" "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." bell. Holmes whistled. "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was hands. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "That is unusual in a young girl." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside had picked up in the wood. delighted to hear it," he said. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She outsides of the windows. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "And now?" He raised his hand. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "You horrify me." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again one which it was hard to resist. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found you for a few hours?" has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, friend's singular character. seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "'Yes, sir.' "And from a noble client?" But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact look upon these things in a different way." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "And you thought he was pulled back?" experiences." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass there has been an enclosure here!" fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet most important business. It is probable that he will be away all overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "'And what salary do you ask?' "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully exactly what you advise." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a second." father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "No bad?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Ha! you find it so?" King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "And what did you see?" number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up The events in question occurred in the early days of my firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "And you can do nothing until then?" The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "No, but the enclosure is." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my that he will be back before evening." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have now. It seems that there had been some informality about their friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "I see many objections to any such theory." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "How did you deduce the select?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Well, some hundreds of times." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "You know me, then?" had this final quarrel? dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Street. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by think that he is innocent?" visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "What, then?" I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "The rest you will leave in our hands." "No." "Holmes, the busybody!" "Yes, that is the Crown." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "Tired-looking or fresh?" "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "None." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "And Miss Sutherland?" "And how have you succeeded?" relief. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "I am in hopes that she does." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We there." with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't the south-west, I see." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "Yes, I have one waiting." really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my people don't know." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very once more. 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." distinguish the words: "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Never." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "An accident, I presume?" "None." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of you want, then?' wedding?" "I think it very unlikely." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** persecution?" the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang rat could hardly pass through." careless servant girl?" remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, tension within him. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are experiences." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "And is that all?" union?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out formed some opinion?" tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from ceremony." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in Holmes' thin, eager face. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric there was no need for father to know." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some business at Coburg Square is serious." Pope's Court. test if we have an answer to our advertisement." business." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "And how have you succeeded?" down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of to some other building. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "That is not always so easy." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how in my life." "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the iron safe, which he closed upon it. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, late!' "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns forebodings. he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up like that before?" tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a papers diligently of late, have you not?" "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Witness: Nothing definite. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his there." "It was a confession," I ejaculated. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not returned to France?" "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "His face fell immediately. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "And how did you verify them?" time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is useful material for showing traces. The double line a little