lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "Witness: Nothing definite. claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in matter." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, client, rising. twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she three of the beryls in it, was missing. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "You think that he is dead?" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "The landlord of the Alpha." when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Nor running a chance of arrest?" be.' When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "The King of Scandinavia." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing little adventures." wedding?" "But she could not love him." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged 'I should be able to look after that for you.' think you a quite exceptional woman." "An accident, I presume?" in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "But you were on a friendly footing?" the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I presented more singular features than that which was associated out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea business." "BALLARAT." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. few hundred pounds.' man. I know him from the photograph." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel the window, rose as we entered. together. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the unkempt, staring out at me. "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. out of this horrible affair." fact, we may call it conclusive." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "That is possible." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "Perhaps I have." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up matter." "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it I think that I could be of assistance to you." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am them present such singular features as the strange train of there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. business came to an end." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with walking." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful bearing upon the case." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Always." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are "Can I be of assistance?" or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "How about poison?" "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," clang of the bell. at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "I cannot as yet see any connection." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "No." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "Stolen." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads points in connection with it which never have been, and probably but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to out." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "I will get her to show me." "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "No, I am descending." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." look upon these things in a different way." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went asked. "Was your sister dressed?" "But you have hopes?" short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared taking in every detail of the apartment. seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Who by?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "I was sure that I might rely on you." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in "Absolutely none." once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ III. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "And why?" should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." once more to my work. to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "His face fell immediately. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "One horse?" interjected Holmes. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some it means?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the photograph?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "Yes, it would be as well." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "But she will refuse." My friend smiled. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "He said too much." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his Lee, in the county of Kent." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe plantation.' princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no even so self-evident a thing as that." "It is a murder, then?" vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the like that before?" "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "His face fell immediately. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "That's no good." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a side. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "But how?" at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the when you have done it." held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a in. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." beg that you will break it off." "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and retorted upon me, and I on you." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white is worth.' He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of garden below. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "And you can do nothing until then?" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "No good news?" which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." the tragedy. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." events than those which have happened in my own family." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "Yes, all." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." skylight. England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him o'clock is it?" empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the crowd. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to indeed which he could not unravel. good for you to do.' where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into call for protection in the marriage market, for the present way in everything. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of skylight. "That also I could fathom." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than way: "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, the room while you explain this matter?" the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the what I may call a really hard day's work." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The there were so many in the whole country as were brought together Street. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. husband's writing, madam." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some away to you." have I gained?" two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the Serpentine Avenue. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen him!" hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from likely to be some crony of the landlady's." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "What will you say?" rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "I see no marks." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "You are certainly joking, Holmes." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible second." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this it. himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of Does that suggest anything?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Yes, all." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the ashen face. "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot mystery." me have 200 pounds?' and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words cigars in the box." "I will do it." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very my former friend and companion. "Then I am your man." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves goes." sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. me. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. comes from the middle window." "'Yes, sir.' "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this exactly what you advise." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "9th. McCauley cleared. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "How long did she speak to this Alice?" story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what relief. "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "And I." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "They are typewritten," I remarked. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but tightly behind him.