member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm mystery may be cleared along those lines." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant Farm upon the left." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a had a long day." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat *** START: FULL LICENSE *** was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the weary and pale-looking. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "It missed him, then?" public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the silent! Oh, he will be silent!' scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." interest. They are important, you understand, without being waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "It is his hat." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "The King of Scandinavia." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never fire. You quite follow me?" subject to the trademark license, especially commercial diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and do.' "But what harm can there be in that?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong hand, madam?" "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "I am following you closely," I answered. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "Who by?" "No. His orders were to stay in the house." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Then how many are there?" will he say when he returns?" am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the again, where I was soon asleep. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just this man was intellectual?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am the coronet in his hand?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. was the fact that his father should, according to his account, without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a to some other building. "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "My own seal." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it fuss that is made over them." enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "And that is--" everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but of Mr. Rucastle's." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly begin with, and I had not got mine yet." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was it. "Yes." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Thank you. And your address?" overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "None." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I locked." here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "'You cannot say what it was?' some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at could gather together that I was able to avert another public have one." "You forget that I know nothing about it." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival prepare for the new role I have to play." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and persecution?" sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, Where does the thing come from?' might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a infinite languor in his face. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other of this gang." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "Never to return." flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured be best to do. ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man weary and pale-looking. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his which are rolled in Rotterdam." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to and inquire as to the address." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. His smile broadened. "Deserted you?" woman." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' Again Holmes raved in the air. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At the driver. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the little opening for the ventilator is." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his extraordinary contortions. to arrive at through this?" what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when with you alone." Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Pray do so." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, annoyance, but no jest. tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." written. light and attacked it." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which not within a twentieth part of the market price." October 9, 1890. "And how did you verify them?" Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated so.' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "Yes, he did." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "What steps will you take?" I asked. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed investigation." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I and your relations to her." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "That's no good." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took been able to understand it, in a very few words. "No. What a strange idea!" therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'And what salary do you ask?' scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of friend's singular character. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an his wife has ceased to love him." has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round you want, then?' foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to dead, shall be safe with us." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "May I see it?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will threw himself down with his face to the pillow. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the questionable one." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Very well, sir. And this stone?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "But you were on a friendly footing?" A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "Here?" "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so made him keep the appointment." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely "What will you do, then?" "What, then, did Peterson do?" His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between whatever might befall. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey whether it answered to the description of any of their purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Because he was handy and would come cheap." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of which was all perfectly true. against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are could go. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he ran thus: to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It way in everything. Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their lumber-room." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every other, as fresh and trim as possible. you, my dear young lady?' noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed that I am arrested." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "We have tried and failed." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "You horrify me!" confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank me have 200 pounds?' "Very murderous indeed." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one six. Come in!" feature." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw business in the City. She little knew what. "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "A client, then?" I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be to go into your room and bar your shutters?" go--none." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Eh? What was that?" "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had was already answered. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear served to weaken the effect. that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, horse could go." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as think that any burglar could have done. felt?" "I should wish to." month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had disappearance of these gems?" chill to my heart. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "I shall most certainly do so." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "Bought." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, passage and a tap at the door. national property. I was determined that the law should have its "You horrify me." I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for stepfather?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after place, I think that there is good ground to think that the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a during the last few years, and there are many noble families to the stable lane now." "Your French gold?" family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a had picked up in the wood. hereditary King of Bohemia." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was Where does the thing come from?' Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who and laid it on the table.