lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into nights." Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands cigars in the box." have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close have got?" wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" I was concerned in it." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use McCarthy." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "No." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "Pray continue your narrative." slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, wedding?" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common carried out of court." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I in his power. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, our word." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "I cannot tell." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any to change my dress. dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "But she could not love him." it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "You will not go there first?" envelope. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." out of this horrible affair." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have telegram would bring me down to your help." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." in. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest deduce something from that?" imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and colonel looking down at me. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a families. Now for the facts. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "To an English lawyer named Norton." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "I say that I have solved it." furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am go from here to the Strand." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I think it very unlikely." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know over here." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand some city in a dream. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as in a friendly supper." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he allusion to a rat. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy round with crates and massive boxes. obstinate." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear have had none more fantastic than this." down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a public press." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Always." with some details as to your case." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so get her out of the way." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "'Quite sure, dad.' friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip and wait." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the the one as in the other." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "I will get her to show me." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the date of his supposed suicide." upon the shelf for the interim." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Did he not advertise?" listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built followed. go back?" "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I think that any burglar could have done. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was union?" clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." read it out to me." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a will find little credit to be gained out of this case." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "And why?" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower touch that coronet?' shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer call the police, let the police find what they can.' may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "'Certainly not. But why?' attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and meant." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known was a perfect sample of the class. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Lee, in the county of Kent." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building anything to do with the matter?" him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered "Well?" did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered was a loud and authoritative tap. "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the of it with the greatest attention. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "I warn you that they are very incomplete." American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "That's no good." and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "I would give my fortune to have them back." been shamefully used." "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see disappearance of the bride.'" "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my into the bag, and made for the door. a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly bell. Holmes whistled. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper just ask you whether you had heard it.' better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but happened." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be once more for Briony Lodge. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "You are all wrong." Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired husband's writing, madam." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of to-night?" I asked. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and gigantic client. "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, had died away into the silence from which it rose. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had point in the dark hollow of his hand. place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the not, dad?" she asked. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "I think it very unlikely." business?" and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "Will you go?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "Quite so." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "But how?" notes," he said. "None." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many back alive. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross said he, "my real name is James Ryder." room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other fasten all the windows?" are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "My stepfather's business papers." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Only as much as we can deduce." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just you?' previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has suspect him." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." the matter." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at when you have done it." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "But how?" "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so examination of the premises, but without finding anything which however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I you want, then?' madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. said he. "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Miss Holder?" little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest became a certainty. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save "You have the photograph?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "Then how many are there?" "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "What I expected to see." his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout morning." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each about here speaks of his kindness to him." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. daring than any effort of the imagination." conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for to-morrow." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that the bed, and you in that chair." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There furiously. "But you can know nothing of this?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his spark where all is dark to me." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred other lovers by making love himself." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Yes, that is the Crown." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I or in danger--" "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he as this. Pray let me have the details." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may the best of training." cup of tea. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "We must have a cab." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by the roots. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "That sounds a little paradoxical." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Was there a secret marriage?" "From his hat?" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. spark where all is dark to me." "How many? I don't know." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "None." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not next day. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a hour?' "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "I am to be neutral?" schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever said I. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A newspaper selections." "Yes." companion. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from country, and eventually married, without anyone having a returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the thirty. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the