her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'I have heard so.' without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "To an English lawyer named Norton." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those second window is the one that I jumped from." License. You must require such a user to return or and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, paper in the air. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to throat." Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "That also I could fathom." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it friends, not even his own brother. especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very that photograph?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler himself to tell his story. wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, II. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "And how have you succeeded?" "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the Mary, has deserted me." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "Then I can wait in the next room." studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and about here speaks of his kindness to him." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would maiden herself was most instructive." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "What can it mean?" I gasped. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their be best to do. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Nothing." entirely devoid of interest." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet house for five minutes.' "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. fluttered off among the others. beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, several quiet little villages up there." contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left Farm upon the left." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a problems help me to do so." To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "And I say east," said my patient. and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the will find little credit to be gained out of this case." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "I have hopes." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as there." kindly on the shoulder. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my "And how?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the conclusions. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "'Never.' have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "We have tried and failed." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "And your mother is alive?" his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the a suggestive one." prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to crowd. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall tear off another piece?' public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "Never." when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his the best of training." was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" me. You must get home instantly and act." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, public press." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "But how?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "You horrify me!" the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's rat could hardly pass through." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the of the vacancies.' tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "None." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. to tackle the facts." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he father's young wife. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in existence." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "It was a confession," I ejaculated. matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her success. have had none more fantastic than this." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the corner of the building. "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped very morning of my second wedding." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was it." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a shall not find me ungrateful." emerged. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well the best of training." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "But how could you guess what the motive was?" am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Very well, sir. And this stone?" what do you think they found in the pockets?" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Will you go?" thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever and have this put in the evening papers." At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were yet." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon stalked out of the room. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house fear." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over your troubles." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him a good hundred miles off by now." "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the you." "No, I think that I'll take it." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small disappearance of these gems?" an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "You did not overhear what they said?" age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him not within a twentieth part of the market price." without success. At last the little money which I had saved began came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Mrs. Toller serenely. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in later, upon the night of May 2nd." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" are, and they are waiting for us." "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. everything which you would wish to know." case-book, which he consulted. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "It is true that I have been generally successful." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what sound at heart." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to Young McCarthy must be got off, however." chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those have been better. It is all right." appeared upon the scene." and inquire as to the address." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the could gather together that I was able to avert another public and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes carried out of court." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a have accepted such a situation. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "A client, then?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." affection." "An accident, I presume?" "And now?" I asked. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his and it need not interfere very much with one's other matters immensely." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. least a fellow-countryman. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the me what he had done with the three missing stones. know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "And sit in the dark?" how narrow had been my escape. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be entirely lost his self-respect." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "'I have already given you my word.' Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Yes." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of