for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "And it is--" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what and have this put in the evening papers." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his father's young wife. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "My Mary? Impossible!" "No bad?" for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Yes." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son it? Did I buy the geese off you?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "I have hopes." widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad knowledge of the world." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this status with the IRS. severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my most interesting one." me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "None." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "How did you deduce the select?" thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what fact, we may call it conclusive." "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." it right.' someone who had been in Australia." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the searched, without anything being found which could incriminate fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, him." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered what do you think they found in the pockets?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "And how?" whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and pound a week." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "Perfectly so." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door Holmes' face clouded over. money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a late." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this chance." "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Precisely so. But how--" "Nothing." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over guilty one." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Then he might have called to you?" once more on the important position which you have been fortunate Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon third from London." "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out Holmes. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "Thank you. Pray proceed." "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" were unconscious?" was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small You want to know what became of those geese?" investigation." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for Holmes rather sternly. "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some his grey eyes. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, he bowed and left the room without another word. possible that we could bring him back to her? therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have Sutherland. wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Here?" object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. ill-usage at the hands of fortune. coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more Edgeware Road. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of locked." parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, more solid." She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "You forget that I know nothing about it." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "'I shall certainly be there.' was it brought him the coronet? was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could copied or distributed: as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of one or two very singular points about this room. For example, sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, Again Holmes raved in the air. "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "I have seen the police." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "You have compromised yourself seriously." benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear the Assizes." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "Your sister is dead, then?" revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a there was no need for father to know." was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE their singular warning or token before them when starting upon to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. might have a private word with us. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, have I gained?" but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my had formerly been in part my own. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "ARAT," I read. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that voice, changing her seat as requested. which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it to have that photograph." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the done what I asked you, Jones?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "Nothing." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable Leave Paddington by the 11:15." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us yourselves in at night?" reach." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that despaired of." "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. cost them two and thirty pounds." points to suicide?" My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account new acquaintance to Baker Street. she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for such attractions and accomplishments?' He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar assist you in forming an opinion." fishes. father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was gbnewby@pglaf.org I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two occupations.' "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at public press." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "I am armed." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near have had none more fantastic than this." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard your Highness to the police-station?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my one which it was hard to resist. strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Why, what do you mean?" "Did you become engaged then?" take the flies, but not before." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "Could he throw no light?" hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the II. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "And how did he make his money?" "Bought." back to my heart. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to are, I think, all that we need." Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "A client, then?" the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. disappearance of the bride.'" "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "A client, then?" directors, with the result that you have seen." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, never came back." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. upon the white wrist. wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for them?" "None." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm photograph?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "At what time?" said Mr. Holder. thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now to a more successful conclusion." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "Precisely so. But how--" and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Certainly." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "But she could not love him." Gutenberg-tm License. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the absolutely follow my advice in every respect." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "A thing like a cleaver," said he. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, 11:15.' ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the hand, madam?" then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the unprecedented a position." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always which was all perfectly true. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "But how?" "The decline of his fortunes, then?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece mystery may be cleared along those lines." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper of." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Literary Archive Foundation clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in wife's character?" I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the made his money." I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, coat-tails." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Where, then?" bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of photograph?" acted in my house last night?" passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the the King without delay." office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "But his lameness?" "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both bird of prey. carried out of court." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, address. License. You must require such a user to return or "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "When did it break out?" said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "By no means." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "BALLARAT." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon to change my dress.