beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom For additional contact information: test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. down. His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," there has been an enclosure here!" down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Yes." knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we trifles." and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. asked. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the be. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "An accident, I presume?" pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. to talk it over. which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "It is very kind of you." Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "What then?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, I shall communicate with you." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Leadenhall Street--and--" "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "It is true that I have been generally successful." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Quite so. She has her freedom." sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "Yes?" is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Where, then?" already been minutely examined." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want that, and I came down." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "It missed him, then?" us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat presented which may be striking and bizarre without being said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to and shall probably return to London by the evening train." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must disturbance in my wife." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the such person." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, room had already been engaged for us. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "Frequently." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing affair. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our occurred." to have that photograph." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to http://gutenberg.net/license). to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she situation." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as about. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with south, for the country is more deserted there." the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward out." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, to change my dress. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "You think that he is dead?" "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. presented more singular features than that which was associated do you make of it all?" carriage. It was a chestnut." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was rooms." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "I am all attention, madam." "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "What have you to say now?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg union?" effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar could gather together that I was able to avert another public your own bird, so if you wish--" ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "I answered that I had not. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in question," said Holmes, smiling. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy returned to France?" liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "My photograph." crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on the nursery. room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery This is what he says: "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our could gather together that I was able to avert another public rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that writer." occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not this as likely?" now. It seems that there had been some informality about their over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true examine." signal between you and your father? at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the strong reason behind." glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual said I. really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. allusion to a rat. would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years speckled band?" consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with been." as the one I chose?' elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging introspective fashion. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton take the flies, but not before." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "I answered that I had not. "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the official police." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. that I am arrested." merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George my little problems." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to could go. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "What is it?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of the Red-headed League." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have possible that we could bring him back to her? "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. should be so warm over such a trifle." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing outbreak?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "Not him." make me his representative both with the servants and with the off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "And why in hopes?" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "That is it on the dressing-table." "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "On the contrary, this is the right side." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." residence of the great financier. Where does the thing come from?' "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely beg that you will break it off." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the whereabouts. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. all that?" "I never have." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that it right.' "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "That is unusual in a young girl." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." better grown goose." When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and bird of prey. pierced for earrings?" "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left for securing the situation." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. despair." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "Certainly." "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave mystery!" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the redistribution. Sutherland?" round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "I am in hopes that she does." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we McCarthy." do." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. them?" Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and trying to your nerves." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his breakfast and whispered something to her husband. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving papers." "'Yes, I promise.' before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were may never be exposed to such a temptation." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all down in his armchair and closing his eyes. tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly observed. with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Well, but China?" accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw imbecility!" he cried. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father is so. I know all about McCarthy." freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other existence." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "'Which dealer's?' to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out straighten it?" is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love it." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. this remarkable episode. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one problems help me to do so." "My dear Holmes!" examine." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "And why?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ "Look there!" said he. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "Then you may entirely rely on me." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "But your client--" went to the Alpha were town bred." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the upon an income of about 60 pounds." "I guessed as much." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated point our research must commence, and we will begin it by his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "Yes, I have one waiting." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To that he will be back before evening." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is existence." "But how?" "And the murderer?" Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." views." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "I am still in the dark." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we Holmes rather sternly. do." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Thank you. Pray proceed." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent to a more successful conclusion." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my John Swain, of St. Augustine. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "It surprised me." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "I am sure." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "How can you tell that?" made him keep the appointment." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very thought that she would have been so carried away." sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a coroner's jury." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "An enemy?" interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased