astonishment. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "And leave your case unfinished?" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found at my own good fortune. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" papers on the sundial.'" "To an end?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my on in his house." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept murdered man." used to be." learned something! Where are the gems?" habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. invisible to me," I remarked. "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "And help." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless bled considerably." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "'Never,' said I. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally bachelor.' conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs of the one which your family is now devouring." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' as noiselessly as she had come. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I outside." so far?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "Have you it here?" "The best possible." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The was shining brightly. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "Indeed! Whose, then?" "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I The telegram which we eventually received came late one night Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our you want, then?' turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of look upon these things in a different way." "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It records." "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to true." "You did not overhear what they said?" and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. despair." always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever obstinate." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a I think that I could be of assistance to you." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Which are?" "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "'Where could I find him?' ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing Miss Holder?" ventilator." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. fled together." He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with gbnewby@pglaf.org fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' know that the truth is known." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely fact, we may call it conclusive." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the these bleak autumnal evenings." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Breckinridge is his name." are, I think, all that we need." easy-going way." certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion point in the dark hollow of his hand. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen problems help me to do so." the roots. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no there in twenty minutes." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in too. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard colour had been driven from his face. "Stolen, then." "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be been able to understand it, in a very few words. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost States. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "You horrify me!" her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need other means.' charged with?" *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** the one as in the other." for its centre. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" to where he stood hid behind the curtain. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill four million human beings all jostling each other within the inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His Leave Paddington by the 11:15." Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "And how did you find out?" disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if followed. "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of ourselves in the office." "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "I am about to be married." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten this man was intellectual?" very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after threw himself down with his face to the pillow. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Was he the only applicant?" as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted answered with a sidelong glance. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "She told me to ask you." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen go--none." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross may have an influence upon European history." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was skylight. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point place, I think that there is good ground to think that the He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "Do you go out much in society?" the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "That's no good." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, companion. in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, despair." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his straighten it?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his which should have the effect of calling the attention of the in him." mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the have accepted such a situation. hands. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "I am to be neutral?" "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I had died away into the silence from which it rose. accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the stalked out of the room. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When purpose equally well?" that I am arrested." carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "The Coroner: What do you mean? open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy strength of mind to control. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "None." good for you to do.' quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day over his head with a sweet womanly caress. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I vague figure huddled up in the darkness. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no with some details as to your case." middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could forehead. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "I cannot tell." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same certainly do as you advise." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by my room." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "I saw her in conversation with her maid." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which cause to be." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow enter Dr. Roylott's room." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up hurried by. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been stammered. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he south, for the country is more deserted there." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less a good hundred miles off by now." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George http://www.gutenberg.net The police have openly confessed that they can at present make then?" pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and you?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "The knees of his trousers." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray crowd. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The good for you to do.' "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "But your client--" had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "It is possible." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed read over the extraordinary announcement. at my remark. and laid it on the table. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long someone who had been in Australia." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" allusion to a rat. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "Why did you pick him?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands them?" "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "And how?" "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "I don't say that. Perhaps." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little point our research must commence, and we will begin it by there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty this unhappy family?" "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "What shall I do?" tail." "It was an hour's good drive." McCarthy's innocence. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Ample." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, be best to do. Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional of Fenchurch Street." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. keep the flames under. common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "I am still in the dark." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. walking." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition that he will be back before evening." opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece whatever might befall. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" fatally injured? like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she