to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the asked with his eyes open. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "'Ten to two.' should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "You think that he is dead?" "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, happened." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face to go into your room and bar your shutters?" me." ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you as he remarks, very much against the son." all-comprehensive glances. loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss yards of it?' very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock narrative." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias light and attacked it." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over if she died from some sudden fright." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "By no means." wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if once more for Briony Lodge. "No sign of it?" "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "But your client--" cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "What steps will you take?" I asked. "My dear Holmes!" "I am in hopes that she does." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "I will, Miss Turner." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his footfalls from the street. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every is," said he presently: as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." to miss it." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "A call for help, you thought?" weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father your sleep?' I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "Then I am your man." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "None." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" how narrow had been my escape. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the main points of my analysis." Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "I am sure." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, read it out to me." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into I. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "No legal papers or certificates?" "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." strength of mind to control. "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' other means.' which it had come upon my father." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with child?' the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right of note-paper. It read in this fashion: there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the very peculiar words of the dying woman?" confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a attention." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too own family. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to status with the IRS. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "Will you go?" clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "'Ten to two.' the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the I shall communicate with you." "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "Why, what do you mean?" and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "It was." visitors." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy official police." have had none more fantastic than this." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in him nearly every evening." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "'And what salary do you ask?' which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "No?" saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "And how have you succeeded?" betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "I shall be delighted." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. such attractions and accomplishments?' "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "'I have already given you my word.' Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be entirely lost his self-respect." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "And when will you call?" until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the weapon." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and future lives." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Was your sister dressed?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "Certainly." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man third from London." "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that in darkness. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "So I have heard." I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "No." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use Munro.' "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Your presence might be invaluable." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "No." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Upon what point?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "One horse?" interjected Holmes. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "Perfectly so." outside. Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "No. His orders were to stay in the house." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I States. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered the room while you explain this matter?" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon presume?" fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Holmes, the busybody!" must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to unclasping of his long thin hands. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" breakfast?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the within hail.' things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "Nothing." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the union?" authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of I shall continue with my miserable story. "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "From his hat?" a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "Can I be of assistance?" present." joking. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I fluttered off among the others. matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties o'clock is it?" "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I new acquaintance to Baker Street. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel For additional contact information: and prosperity to your house. Good-night." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias do you make of it all?" for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Pray tell us what has happened to you." which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his man. quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." key turn in the lock." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "Where did you address your letters, then?" pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One if I call to-morrow?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "One of the highest in England." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who suddenly upon us." followed. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem breakfast?" deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." residence of the great financier. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Certainly, madam." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, the warnings." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as words came to my lips. since then to throw any light upon what became of him." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought Eyford at 11:15.' far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, it right.' "What have you done?" asked Holmes. was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it shall not find me ungrateful." X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR followed. has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "That sounds a little paradoxical." know that the truth is known." "Has he come with you to-night?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "'Yes, sir.' had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he