"There are none." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. window when the police appeared." Holmes' thin, eager face. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a lamp. "Yes." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Precisely so. But how--" precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." tail." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "But not more so than I to find you." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "He is dead," cried several voices. direction." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the advice." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "Certainly." questioning and rather startled gaze. "Perhaps I have." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among I have it here in my museum." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "That sounds a little paradoxical." Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "Game for a morning drive?" left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. this unhappy family?" "Yes, that is the Crown." course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at as this. Pray let me have the details." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "And how did he make his money?" nights." the very letters. But what is this written above them?' remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "By all means." just ask you whether you had heard it.' his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's Munro.' "Pray do so." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. gone. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "How did that help you?" with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "And sit in the dark?" which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever clang of the bell. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, had this final quarrel? coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would my secret was safe in his possession. good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very business in the City. She little knew what. "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely business." I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the all that?" any." "I see many objections to any such theory." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime this as likely?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "Where is it, then?" Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "I cannot as yet see any connection." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical do.' surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Yes, but only for you and me." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in without a word or a look. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "I will do it." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "You have a clue?" you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "His face fell immediately. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that answer." "Yes, that is the Crown." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what before the coroner and the police-court." "And is that all?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Arthur Conan Doyle be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the pictures, libraries, or plate. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "No sign of it?" object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "An enemy?" Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence mystery may be cleared along those lines." mystery." "How can you tell that?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "Well?" "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of to a more successful conclusion." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the she to prove their authenticity?" the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the are, and they are waiting for us." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Never to return." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and questioning and rather startled gaze. Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Not in a good cause." your Highness to the police-station?" "'Never,' said I. in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his crime." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "It is to him that this trophy belongs." the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he problems help me to do so." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "No." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "I was certainly surprised to find you there." carpenter." description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right dramatic, in fact." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "None. Neville wrote those words." sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy better grown goose." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I thin, with a long, sharp nose?" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have British peeress.'" him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become unclasping of his long thin hands. there." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "How can you tell that?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the meanly of me." the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing in a friendly supper." "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "But how will you look?" had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she Holmes." "How many? I don't know." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to and put his glass in his pocket. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, and your relations to her." one's self under obligations.' we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "'Ample.' some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the is four-and-twenty." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "You did not overhear what they said?" "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. "Then I can wait in the next room." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. which was all perfectly true. "'In my own bureau.' I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no the night.' weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. the King without delay." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Then how many are there?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his was shining brightly. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened present." of it with the greatest attention. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched lamp. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, followed. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Then I can wait in the next room." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his in one or two places in England?' accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten it." of his shoulders. soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a situation." could not have written that. It is the German who is so not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "I promise," said Holmes. labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I ready to-morrow?' his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. of your young ladies.' that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the it means?" Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "I cannot tell." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and which was all perfectly true. to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a any more." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back very morning of my second wedding." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I Sutherland. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "Do you receive much company?" he asked. business." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the them?" Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had opened a pocket-book and took out a note. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "My dear Holmes!" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She for securing the situation." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, possible that we could bring him back to her? the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "But you would not advise me to refuse?" village inn over there?" "But who is he?" too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." his grey eyes. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "But the mystery?" Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "And how did you find out?" in this note: "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he tell them apart.' her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are your sleep?' with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH acquaintance?" shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and papers." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, been anything against him. He had for years been known as a simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "'Is purely nominal.' "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "What is it?" should be so warm over such a trifle." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "My private note-paper." knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Well, it is a possible supposition." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "No, distinctly professional." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general there is a decided draught." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the there has been an enclosure here!" my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in "Did your wife hear all this?" "To an end?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance."