his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had there were one or two details which were new to me. But the we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" flock.' firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "That is unusual in a young girl." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "You were travelling in the States?" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point do." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I Count Von Kramm." watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "9th. McCauley cleared. she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "What shall I do?" She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't The King stared at him in amazement. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. Clair, of Lee." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Yesterday." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I some place of shelter and let the county police know what has room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of matter." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "Yes, the wine-cellar." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "'Is 4 pounds a week.' "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt green of the new foliage. few hundred pounds.' has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "A thing like a cleaver," said he. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must to tell." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he once more for Briony Lodge. his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." his face. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has had formerly been in part my own. little trying to do so much typewriting?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "What! Had he lost his wife?" "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to think, you have already met." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" with her." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work frequently gained my first real insight into the character of Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "Won't it ring?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "My stepfather's business papers." "Then I shall certainly come." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any read over the extraordinary announcement. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a companion. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a made his money." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded outsides of the windows. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the certainly not very gracious." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the already referred to. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "That also I could fathom." "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Yes, they were peculiar boots." two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "'Oh, no.' The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "No legal papers or certificates?" what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Sholtos." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all married her." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "And what did you see?" not fit the lock." whole matter to your consideration." to have been novel and of interest." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of here and I will read it to you: was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try at home. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Eyford at 11:15.' ourselves in the office." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but mystery." "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the the matter." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" bell. Holmes whistled. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon presented more singular features than that which was associated "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut chance." Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "I should wish to." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity back into the street. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "'Which dealer's?' a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "My own seal." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new thin legs towards the fire. "Not yet." however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in from you?" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out less than 26s. 4d. "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' "Very much so." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened back to my heart. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an interests were the same as his." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "Yes." good for you to do.' sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Yesterday." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the yet." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "I see many objections to any such theory." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have never will be, entirely cleared up. to a light-house. with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "My own seal." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." and your relations to her." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking entirely lost his self-respect." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed joking. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a points in connection with it which never have been, and probably himself to hunt down. "I am following you closely," I answered. beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, and prosperity to your house. Good-night." fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "Did you observe the colour?" hands. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the hard-headed British jury." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it a few minutes he said that it would be all right. and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a believe that I should never have any practice at all. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "Then, how do you know?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case down. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in and have this put in the evening papers." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which Stoke Moran." building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches girl said." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 enough to aid us in our search." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Well." I nodded to show that I had heard. both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of investigation." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "Yes." without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the wanted for ourselves." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "And when will you call?" glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should lost nothing by them." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Who by?" no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in certainly not very gracious." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' approach us with offers to donate. "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "If so, much may have happened between." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I information in his hands the value of which he did not himself half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "And how did you find out?" "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, Lee, in the county of Kent." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not like that before?" waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very followed. been shamefully used." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Was she in good spirits?" written, and locked the door of the office after me. The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you here and I will read it to you: high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case again on its way. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "So I am. Very much so." yards of it?' subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the than was visible to me." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "Was your sister dressed?" memory. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I could gather together that I was able to avert another public upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to bedroom door." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as country, and eventually married, without anyone having a to-night?" I asked. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic of the one which your family is now devouring." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' conduct the inquiry." "Never to return." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, prove to be little relation between the different incidents of is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of too. the bed, and you in that chair." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has sneer upon his pale face. "I will get her to show me." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the and I shall be with you presently." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to 'I should be able to look after that for you.' great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one of Mr. Rucastle's." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business more terrible than the truth. "You horrify me!" "Look there!" said he. however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "Yes." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which about here speaks of his kindness to him." distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "The doctor?" "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "'Yes, sir.' destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On our word." him and tried to hold him back. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "Ample." expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a yet." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I