"'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "I will do it." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute and shall probably return to London by the evening train." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his and shall probably return to London by the evening train." guilty one." "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his of the one which your family is now devouring." never came back." letters?" he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, them?" left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small whether it answered to the description of any of their Holmes rather sternly. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet of campaign. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "Two days later this same performance was gone through under there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "What can it mean?" I gasped. Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the bare slabs of marble. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on upon a handsome competence. dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black be best to do. "Pray let us have it, for all that." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent do you make of it all?" his eyes and forehead. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. crowd. "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then made his money." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. lumber-room." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "It certainly sounds feasible." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Yes, only one." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees not use it unless it is absolutely needed." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, the address that was given us in the advertisement. and wait." dead, shall be safe with us." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all in a very precise fashion." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which relief. the very morning of the wedding." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon DISSOLVED. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "Certainly, madam." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. outside." fait accompli?" Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor entirely devoid of interest." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. paper in the air. ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Stoke Moran." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed in the hope of finding them." "That is it on the dressing-table." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." him!" "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the his knees, staring into the fire. age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Frequently." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "You have it, sir, just as it happened." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of orange pips. forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat will be renamed. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "But of what society?" On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I lost nothing by them." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, open." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "Yes." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," forebodings. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "No, finished." I shall continue with my miserable story. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There affection." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to gives a meaning to it." "'Yes, sir.' "Can I be of assistance?" one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "'Why that?' I asks. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So comes from the middle window." room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over would apply.' unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." Street. I shall continue with my miserable story. said I. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to than to us. "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "Yes, that is the Crown." face and glided from the room. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece Miss Holder?" Farm upon the left." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Certainly." "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "'Certainly not. But why?' outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." that there was nothing in it, after all." "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Then you may entirely rely on me." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your Young McCarthy must be got off, however." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "You have compromised yourself seriously." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There been shamefully used." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four to that open window." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "I don't say that. Perhaps." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle is so. I know all about McCarthy." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "I think that it is very probable." "Yes." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Not in a good cause." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off begun to whiten, even as mine has." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to trying to your nerves." The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Young McCarthy must be got off, however." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. chamber." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that which we had just quitted. "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "Witness: Nothing definite. Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my Leave Paddington by the 11:15." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing three fields round his house, and there he would take his cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's behind me. "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "It is true that I have been generally successful." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for there!' "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he amused." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it the Red-headed League." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that is acting for the best. took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm entirely devoid of interest." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "It is possible." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and society." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "Well, but China?" either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. words came to my lips. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her chamber." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the compunction about shooting them down." will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little completely overtopped every other consideration that we both home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the outside." He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out For additional contact information: words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or lost his Christmas dinner." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow hardly wander." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is criminal. We have already had experience of such." child?' the room while you explain this matter?" during that time.' family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "Very truly yours, "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before started for the Temple to see my husband. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging the dangers which encompass me." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough second window is the one that I jumped from." "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "But to whom?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "But it has twice been burgled." the house with me." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" electronic works heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, in the port of London." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly bearing upon the case." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before maiden herself was most instructive." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "That also I could fathom." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness this unhappy family?"