body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my to his chemical studies. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable of it with the greatest attention. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence hands. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a very morning of my second wedding." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "'Is purely nominal.' the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at must be when I saw the door open.' "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. few hundred pounds.' breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, them present such singular features as the strange train of "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "And Irene Adler?" his forehead." correct than the official force." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from during which he might have communicated with his friend the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court absolutely follow my advice in every respect." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' child?' handed it to him. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in footfalls from the street. can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "Quite so." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I enough to aid us in our search." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which lamp in his hand. propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "'You cannot say what it was?' side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, since then to throw any light upon what became of him." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, This is what he says: Again Holmes raved in the air. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "And I." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "You horrify me." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the which it had come upon my father." stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "Pray do so." to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Very truly yours, "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you words came to my lips. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you be sorry for having acted so harshly." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my directors have had misgivings upon the subject." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a nonsense.' "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to so far?" formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a hands. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "I am sure." I nodded to show that I had heard. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed prepare for the new role I have to play." charge against him will break down." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." morning." You want to know what became of those geese?" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his envelope. "I should wish to." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "A confidential servant?" and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain a little more before I quite committed myself. have accepted such a situation. Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "What is it?" "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is three fields round his house, and there he would take his way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers know what is wrong with it.' answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. less than 26s. 4d. "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was of the one which your family is now devouring." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a death." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon and capable of preserving a secret.' to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "The doctor?" the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. to Leatherhead. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias think, you have already met." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is again before evening." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were place no limit on the sum I may draw." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little "'What are you doing there?' he asked. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When him to be an active member of the medical profession." screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "What shall I do?" a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed "And how?" "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now begun to whiten, even as mine has." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his 11:15.' adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as any little problem which you may submit to me." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. one's self under obligations.' later, upon the night of May 2nd." give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the shall not find me ungrateful." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things front of the hall door has given its name to the place. and that he would see to anything that turned up. "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "None. Neville wrote those words." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "Where, then?" matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott on re-entering her father's house?" safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Yes." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. I took the paper from him and read as follows: sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been up this clue while it is still hot." quite distinctive." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much get her out of the way." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "Was she in good spirits?" "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "You have compromised yourself seriously." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" mysterious business." did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very could not account in any way for the presence of the missing he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't the King without delay." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. you, my dear young lady?' matter." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do been shamefully used." to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "I have come for advice." "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There quickly through a disagreeable task. "The vanishing of the lady." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman light and attacked it." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to upon a handsome competence. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "'Yes, it was gone.' no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "Yes, he did." "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "'Ten to two.' papers on the sundial.'" was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "It is possible." star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped voice. outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "But what is it you wish?" wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "Yes, from Horsham." empty. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "He might." to go into your room and bar your shutters?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. back into the street. after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, galvanised. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing attention." you." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a case before our client came into the room." retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "'Which dealer's?' - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be in your London, you will know that the office of the company is base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" national property. I was determined that the law should have its exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Where, indeed?" departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his down from London to inquire more deeply into it." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. residence of the great financier. "Why? What do you mean?" There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a one of the states of the Union." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of more terrible than the truth. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of this poor creature." "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "I will do it." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the answered with a sidelong glance. could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "My dear Holmes!" His name is Francis Prosper." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I new duties?' that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Frequently." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "What is it?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box distance from the station, and there we found the young lady a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "So I heard. You have him here?" 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the think, you have already met." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that bird of prey. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "Your presence might be invaluable." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to arrangements." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." returning from some small jollification and was making his way really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call you." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do a monotonous occupation." sneer upon his pale face. "How did he come?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few possible that we could bring him back to her? be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet this man was intellectual?" Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' one of the states of the Union." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to get her out of the way." "What will you say?" and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." infinite languor in his face. heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Not in a good cause." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly you." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon My friend smiled. address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his returned to France?" or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De of receipt of the work. Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions acquaintance?" than to us. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which Arthur Conan Doyle professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the children over to America with him, so that I found myself without here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from whereabouts. "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Not yet." determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little letters?" Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter chance at all." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's