creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately your bag." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, lost nothing by them." "You did not overhear what they said?" evidence," I remarked. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer little trying to do so much typewriting?" make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "There is the writing." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "When did she vanish, then?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "He might." Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all locked." "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility train.' the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I have hopes." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "You forget that I know nothing about it." trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet observed. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the page at http://pglaf.org until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Pray do so." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon Sholtos." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "'Certainly,' I answered. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might have accepted such a situation. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Pool. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "'What then?' I asked. "How often?" his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "You think so, too?" slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm are, and they are waiting for us." I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not tied." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and gentleman's clothes. luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat good-night and bustled off upon her way. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? indeed which he could not unravel. had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the you?' breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Eh? What was that?" reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the tell him that I know him to be innocent." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary daring than any effort of the imagination." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, breakfast." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I upon the white wrist. I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "Your presence might be invaluable." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring cigar and let me expound." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "No, I had a dozen." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting triumphant cloud from his cigarette. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "What! You do not mean bodies?" tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into him to be an active member of the medical profession." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of public press." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the have established a very serious case against the son of the crowd. solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Pray let us have it, for all that." bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On upon a handsome competence. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at tell me that you intended to go into harness." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to not interfere, come what may. You understand?" 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I that the gas is not laid on in his house?" cost them two and thirty pounds." These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a to Leatherhead. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." side. "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "So I have heard." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "'In my own bureau.' Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must suddenly upon us." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in horse could go." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day and put his glass in his pocket. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "You are hungry," I remarked. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "That is easily got." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." "In heaven's name, what for?" "No sign of it?" day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "It is to him that this trophy belongs." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the for the market.' unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My strode off upon his way. the salesman. "How about poison?" unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a directly by questioning you." me. You must get home instantly and act." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Holmes' thin, eager face. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the pictures, libraries, or plate. his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' room. while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. the so-precious time, but come!' even of instruction." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." him." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, floor. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "You have compromised yourself seriously." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for coat-tails." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "Which are?" bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down III. hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "Won't it ring?" received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that was not a bird to be seen there. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a closely." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "'Which dealer's?' In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in young Openshaw's." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "I was sure that I might rely on you." "Stoke Moran?" said he. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" yourselves in at night?" future lives." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the letters?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "An accident, I presume?" settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot make me his representative both with the servants and with the month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "On your arm?" "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is of the way of danger. "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt your room." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "Yes, sir." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, thirty. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Then I can wait in the next room." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural pressing in one house as in another. face and glided from the room. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you until night should bring an explanation. week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I digesting their breakfasts at home." afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. I am not easy in my mind about them." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I were unconscious?" in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and call for it in person on Monday morning.' than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over out." "Can I be of assistance?" could gather together that I was able to avert another public third from London." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Where did he live, then?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "I am still in the dark." the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email mysterious business." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in papers." "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have was not a bird to be seen there. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and 'please.'" which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my highly," said Holmes. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I the stable lane now." struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for him. someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a nonsense.' go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally taking in every detail of the apartment. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his morning." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo front of me. delirious. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' you give your casting vote to?" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when upon the white wrist. "Yes, all." We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and a suggestive one." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out me. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which she might be summoned. been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with details." them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. voice, changing her seat as requested. Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a fluttered off among the others. locked. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "You will not go there first?" them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "What! a murderous attack?" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "The King of Scandinavia." and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Holmes, the busybody!" his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his said he at last. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Here?" the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire and looked back. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. what do you think they found in the pockets?" there has been an enclosure here!" gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in which was all perfectly true. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it