leaning back in his chair. have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may his eyes and forehead. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say returned to France?" England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Precisely." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "'Very good.' material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as Holmes." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I three fields round his house, and there he would take his "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without closing the door. round with crates and massive boxes. "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, The King stared at him in amazement. have one." skylight. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Well?" with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be such person." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I information in his hands the value of which he did not himself http://www.gutenberg.net friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs becomes even more simple." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, them?" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a directors have had misgivings upon the subject." presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' here and I will read it to you: we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' what these perils are?" quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." not within a twentieth part of the market price." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night amused." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. secret." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "I am in hopes that she does." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but head. So long, then!" earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we that you saw all that I did." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white asked. Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should all that?" quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "You heard nothing yourself last night?" with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "The murder was done with it." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "My stepfather's business papers." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a straightened it out again. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are woven round him. had this final quarrel? cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the ashen face. to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "Well, it is a possible supposition." then?" seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I child?' the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so http://gutenberg.net/license). save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of chance at all." he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Yes, the wine-cellar." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning she used." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Where, then?" England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "'Which dealer's?' American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding the very letters. But what is this written above them?' own family. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "He said that you could solve anything." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was him and tried to hold him back. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I say it is." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not himself to tell his story. even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "That you are never beaten." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the and put his glass in his pocket. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Not I." sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "What is it, then--a fire?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the hurried by. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little himself. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, to miss it." thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Nothing." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and with the outside air!" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a hour?' into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "Certainly." all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and chemical work which was so dear to him. bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "'How far from the body?' some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which next day. "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. to miss it." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "It must be recovered." "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "Was your sister dressed?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like there in twenty minutes." "My own seal." him nearly every evening." back to my heart. strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would strong and stiff." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "'There is a drive, then?' "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my became a certainty. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "An enemy?" "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" colour had been driven from his face. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the advice." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "What, then, did Peterson do?" I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but go from here to the Strand." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was with the outside air!" "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "Quite so. She has her freedom." ways of our fellow-men." "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' quite distinctive." "In what way?" asked Holmes. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "Seven!" I answered. however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "'You cannot say what it was?' written, and locked the door of the office after me. "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and I leave." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all have established a very serious case against the son of the "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of do.' "I assure you that I am in your hands." "But she could not love him." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt opened the door, and slipped through. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "Tired-looking or fresh?" The summons was a brief and urgent one. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local married her." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of you." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so remarked. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "And how in the world did you find them?" certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a she slowly sank and died without having recovered her throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they McCarthy." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down "She showed me, as I told you she would." we went to search for him, face downward in a little but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been to tell." cigars in the box." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and breakfast?" flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. more solid." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional one else, I think." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was his wife has ceased to love him." was it brought him the coronet? be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a it." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend "I cannot as yet see any connection." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Sutherland?" thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. will not take me long to tell. "Of what day?" "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by visitors." Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have look upon these things in a different way." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping your own bird, so if you wish--" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your not interfere, come what may. You understand?" dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Holmes rather sternly. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into there!' chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was would apply.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." until night should bring an explanation. expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your minor matters until to-morrow." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Perfectly so." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in you." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his with frightened eyes at his accuser. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' in one or two places in England?' him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." companion. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "Imitated." access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Has he come with you to-night?" which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, certainly do as you advise." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "How about poison?" of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" himself. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "'In my own bureau.' "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Only as much as we can deduce." I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "What?" upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at The events in question occurred in the early days of my "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his